"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history." ― Aldous Huxley Topic(s): History More From Aldous Huxley "Dream in a pragmatic way." "Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder." "What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood." More In History "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."― Aldous Huxley "Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another."― Dick Gregory "Most of us get our history through story."― Yann Martel