It’s a brave new world. – Howard Kurtz
The more stitches, the less riches. – Aldous Huxley
But every one belongs to every one else – Aldous Huxley
When the individual feels, the community reels. – Aldous Huxley
No social stability without individual stability. – Aldous Huxley
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. – Aldous Huxley
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. – Aldous Huxley
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can’t. – Aldous Huxley
All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy. – Aldous Huxley
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. – Aldous Huxley
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. – Aldous Huxley
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. – 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
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
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
The innovative spirit was America’s strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. – Arthur Erickson
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
”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
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
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
Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies. – Roger Waters
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
Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They’re building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into paradise, we’ll have the ‘liberty’ of living (or rather, or buying the illusion of living), through the benevolent offices of a middleman as nearly omnipotent as god himself. Freedom? A more perfect captivity is difficult to imagine. – Mark Slouka
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
