Browsing Topic Best Brave New World Lenina Quotes

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.

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

And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is.

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

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

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

The more stitches, the less riches.

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

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.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.

You can’t make flivers 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. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they pratically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave.

We can’t allow science to undo its own good work.

But every one belongs to every one else

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.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

No social stability without individual stability.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

You’ve got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can’t think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?