Quotes from book

Brave New World

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”

“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”

“A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”

“… reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays….”

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

“No social stability without individual stability.”

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

“We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.”

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

“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.”

“Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”

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

“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg — eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”

“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”