Quotes on Brave New World

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.

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.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

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.

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

The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.

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

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

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.

‎"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.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

But every one belongs to every one else

For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

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