Brave New World Character Quotes by Aldous Huxley, William Shakespeare and many others.
People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to believe in God.
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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.
You’ve got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can’t think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford’s: History is bunk.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
The more stitches, the less riches.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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.
It is natural to believe in God when you’re alone– quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
