Quotes on Brave New World Freedom

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

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

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

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.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

The more stitches, the less riches.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

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.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

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.

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.

‎"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