30 Paramount Brave New World Quotes

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.Chapter 1

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.Chapter 2

But every one belongs to every one else.Chapter 3

No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.Chapter 3

Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment.Chapter 3

Ending is better than mending.Chapter 3

You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.Chapter 3

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.Chapter 3

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.Chapter 4

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly-they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.Chapter 4

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.Chapter 4

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.Chapter 8

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.Chapter 8

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.Chapter 10

What fun it would be if one didn’t have to think about happiness!Chapter 12

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.Chapter 12

Our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers without steel – and you can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get.Chapter 16

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.Chapter 16

We don’t want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.Chapter 16

It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.Chapter 16

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t.Chapter 16

Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson – paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.Chapter 16

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.Chapter 17

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. That’s why I have to keep these books locked up in the safe.Chapter 17

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.Chapter 17

It is natural to believe in God when you’re alone – quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…Chapter 17

In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.Chapter 17

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.Chapter 17

I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.Chapter 17

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then, I ate my own wickedness.Chapter 18