Brave New World Freedom Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Choices, Crowds

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

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• People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, People, Brave New World Character

  "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, (Ch. 17), 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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• 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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• An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Believe, Belief

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

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

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• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Good Work, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Hurt, Thinking, Upset

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

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• A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

  Aldous Huxley

  Community, Identity, Stories

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

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• God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Safe, Shelves

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.47, Random House

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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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• To take arms against a sea of troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Speech

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

  Aldous Huxley

  Fall, Brave New World, Giving

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Night, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Men, Law

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

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• The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
  "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Believe, Zippers

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

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• It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Order, Spheres, Economics

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

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• What is too much? There is no such thing!

  Roberto Cavalli

  Too Much, Brave New World Happiness

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• Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, People, Literature

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

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• They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Years, Brave New World Happiness

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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