Quote by Aldous Huxley

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesar

Summary

This quote suggests that as long as people continue to idolize and venerate powerful figures or leaders, those figures will continue to emerge and bring unhappiness to the masses. It implies that the worship and blind loyalty towards individuals in positions of authority can ultimately lead to their abuse of power and the suffering of the people they govern.

By Aldous Huxley

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-farin

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age.

Humor Funny Persuasion Austen Jane Sea Sir Walter

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope ther

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

Katherine Jenkins

Hope

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, go

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Movies

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate mu

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

Vivian Campbell

Technology

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you ge

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Robert Montgomery

Success & Failure

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

Intelligence

The great dividing line between success and failure can be e

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Time

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Family Escape Hearts Our Wish Never

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Alone

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Sin

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,Is wetter water, slimie

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,Is wetter water, slimier slime!And there (they trust) there swimmeth OneWho swam ere rivers were begun,Immense, of fishy form and mind,Squamous, omnipotent, and kind.

Rupert Brooke, Heaven (1914 and

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Death