Brave New World Lenina Quotes

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

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

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.

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.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

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.

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

The more stitches, the less riches.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

I love you more than anything in the world combined.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

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

All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.