All ALDOUS HUXLEY Quotes about “Brave New World”

“What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.”
“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
“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.”
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
“On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
“The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
“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.”
“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.”
“If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.”
“No social stability without individual stability.”
“Whatâ€™s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”
“What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”
“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?”
“Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.”
“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”
“Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!”
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
“All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue â€” liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

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