Quotes from book
Brave New World
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited , and with his final novel, Island , the utopian counterpart. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four .
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
Variant: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Source: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3<!-- p. 50 -->
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
"Variations on a Philosopher" in Themes and Variations (1950)
Source: Brave New World
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 17
Variant: People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Source: Brave New World (1932)
Variant: I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.
Source: Brave New World
