Quotes on Brave New World Happiness

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.

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

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

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.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

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

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

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

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.

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.

"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.