“Brutes are merely brutal; men and women are capable of being…”

“Brutes are merely brutal; men and women are capable of being devils and lunatics. They are no less capable of being fully human-even, occasionally, of being a bit more than fully human, of being saints, heroes and geniuses.”

— Aldous Huxley

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Title: Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley
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Context

Introduction to You Are Not The Target by Laura Archera Huxley (1963)

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Huxley, Aldous. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

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