Brave New World John Quotes

• 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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• "All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
  "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."
  There was a long silence.
  "I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

  Aldous Huxley

  Pain, Cancer, Long

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

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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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• No social stability without individual stability.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Individual, Social

  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 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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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Masters, Supreme

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

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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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• But every one belongs to every one else

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Brave New World Technology, Brave New World Character

  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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• 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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• ‎"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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• Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Thinking, Heaven

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

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• One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Punishment, Enemy

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Good Work, Brave New World Technology, Brave New World Character

  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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• 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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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

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

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• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

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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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• 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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• While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Drunk, Bed, Rage

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.381

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Men, Brave New World Technology

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

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• Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

  Aldous Huxley

  Two, Feet, East

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

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