Quotes on Brave New World Character

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

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.

No social stability without individual stability.

The more stitches, the less riches.

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

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

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

But every one belongs to every one else

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

"All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." _x000D_ "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." _x000D_ There was a long silence. _x000D_ "I claim them all," said the Savage at last.