Quotation by Aldous Huxley

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Eustace Barnack, in Time Must Have a Stop, ch. 12 (1944).

Eustace Barnack extends this time-worn aphorism to express his contempt for puritanical reformers who have traditionally used violence to install their moral and religious visions.
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