Brave New World Consumerism Quotes

• ‎"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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Brave New World, People

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Busy, Factories, Nature Love

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Civilization, Medicine, Choices

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• Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Struggle, Passion

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Brave New World, Joy

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• The more stitches, the less riches.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Stitches, Riches

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

  Neil Postman

  Truth, Fear, Book

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Hipster, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Infinite, Distraction

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Brave New World, Years

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Brave New World”, Spark Notes

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• And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Brave New World, Destiny

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• When the individual feels, the community reels.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Community, Individual

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Destiny, People

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Looks, Misery

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Kissing, Brave New World, Drug

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• But every one belongs to every one else

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Unhappy, Syphilis

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Men, Talent

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Alcohol, Soma

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Men, Brave New World John

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Nasty, Said, Brave New World Technology

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• "Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."

  Aldous Huxley

  Behaviour, Ease, Matter

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Clever, Stupid

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 2, 1932.

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• For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Evil, Philosopher

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

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• O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

  William Shakespeare

  Brave New World, People, Wonder

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 182

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