Brave New World Technology Quotes

• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Technology, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Destiny, People

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Army, Brave New World

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

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• One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Belief, Brave New World Happiness

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Brave New World, Views

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Good Work, Brave New World John, Brave New World Character

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But every one belongs to every one else

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Brave New World John, 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Views, Silence

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: 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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