Brave New World Technology Quotes

Brave New World Technology Quotes by Aldous Huxley, William Shakespeare and many others.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
Aldous Huxley
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous Huxley
All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.
Aldous Huxley
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
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
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
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Aldous Huxley
I’d rather be myself,” he said. “Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
Aldous Huxley
We can’t allow science to undo its own good work.
Aldous Huxley
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
‎”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
No social stability without individual stability.
Aldous Huxley
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
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
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
Aldous Huxley
When the individual feels, the community reels.
Aldous Huxley
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

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