“Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood—never!”

Lindsey Graham about whether he would choose Trump or Cruz for the President of the United States. February 21, 2016
2010s

Source: The Fry Chronicles

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: Dragon Bones

Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)

the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom — the clothing of the grave — that some people believe she is already fitted for.
Address on accepting The Churchman Award, New York (23 May 1944)

Foreword to the 1946 edition
Brave New World (1932)
Context: Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national, militarized totalitarianisms, having as their root the terror of the atomic bomb and as their consequence the destruction of civilization (or, if the warfare is limited, the perpetuation of militarism); or else one supra-national totalitarianism, called into existence by the social chaos resulting from rapid technological progress in general and the atomic revolution in particular, and developing, under the need for efficiency and stability, into the welfare-tyranny of Utopia. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

1963 edition, p. 680
Human Action (1949)