![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Character: Helmholtz Watson, Chapter 4, “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, Brave New World, Character: Bernard, Chapter 4, ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Character: The Narrator, Chapter 4, “Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Character: Propagando repeated by a voice, Chapter 3, Pages 35, 36 “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects.” “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant.” “Six years later it was being produced commercially. “Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. “But they used to take morphia and cocaine.” “There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.” “There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Character: Propagando repeated by a voice, Chapter 3, Pages 33, 35 ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Character: Propagando repeated by a voice, Chapter 3, ![]() You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.” The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.” “Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Character: Mustapha Mond, Chapter 3, “No social stability without individual stability.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Character: The Narrator, Chapter 3, And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?” What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty-they were forced to feel strongly. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. High spurts the fountain fierce and foamy the wild jet. ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Charater: The Narrator, Chapter 2, “A love of nature keeps no factories busy.” “That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Character: The Director, Chapter 1, All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” “And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do. Will the brave new world learn the error of its ways? Or will they remain slaves to their empty pleasures? And people are limited to their planned roles.īut some people are unhappy and question this new world. In this world, people value pleasure more than freedom and individuality. Brave New World quotes with page numbers help you reference your favorite quotes.īrave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is about a dystopian future world. ![]()
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