29 Brave New World Quotes By Aldous Huxley |
Information About Brave New World
Name of Book : Brave New World
Author : Aldous Huxley
Genre : Dystopian
Pages : 311 pages
Language : English
Country : United Kingdom
Publication date : 1932
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Quotes From Brave New World
1. “ Ending is better than mending. ”
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2. “ One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. ”
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3. “ I’m claiming the right to be unhappy ”
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4. “ No social stability without individual stability. ”
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5. “ Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. ”
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6. “ Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. ”
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7. “ Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today. ”
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8. “ The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. ”
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9. “ We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters. ”
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10. “ Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. ”
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11. “ Yes, and civilization is sterilization. ”
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12. “ What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. ”
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13. “ 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. ”
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14. “ “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly. ”
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15. “ Isn’t there something in living dangerously? ”
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16. “ “If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely. ”
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17. “ Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly. ”
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18. “ Our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make flivvers 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. ”
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19. “ It is natural to believe in God when you’re alone– quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. ”
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20. “ There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. ”
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21. “ Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. ”
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22. “ Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can’t. ”
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23. “ We don’t want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. ”
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24. “ There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality. But they used to take morphia and cocaine. ”
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25. “ A love of nature keeps no factories busy.” ”
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26. “ When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them. ”
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27. “ God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. ”
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28. “ Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ”
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29. “ 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. ”
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