As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice! Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve.
Aldous HuxleyAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: July 26, 1894
- Died: November 22, 1963
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