"My dear young friend ... civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise."
- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Mustapha Mond, in Brave New World, ch. 17 (1932).
- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Mustapha Mond, in Brave New World, ch. 17 (1932).
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