"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours." ― Aldous Huxley Topic(s): Power Tags: homemade More From Aldous Huxley "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." "God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness." More In Power "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."― Phillips Brooks "The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before."― William Hague "There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation."― Dennis Prager