Aldous Huxley Quotes

'Atlanta' is Wild West-y - every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There's no single narrative. At the outer edges, the overgrown parking lots and project blocks, the city is a few yards away from apocalypse, and if you slow down, it could engulf you.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Disbelievers cause confusion and corruption in the land.

Today in Russia, we have this extreme form of democracy, which is called anarchy.

An uncontrollable situation, in which there are no clearly defined spheres of authority, has come about in the country. Under these conditions, normal life is impossible.

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the everyday news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana; they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creatures of climate … neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding states…. Such are the effects of mob law, and such are the scenes becoming more and more frequent in this land so lately famed for love of law and order

Living in lawlessness gives you lawlessness.

The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came.

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes-in other words, anarchy.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

I think everybody should be able to do anything they want and let roving bands of people punish each other for things they don't agree with. People with no underwear doing anything they want. Wouldn't that be fun? You wouldn't need television.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.