Aldous Huxley Brave New World Quotes

#1. BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay

Tom Nissley

#2. Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

Robert MacNeil

#3. I always say yes to everything because I always feel that whatever comes my way, life meant for me.

Ruth Bernhard

#4. Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Aldous Huxley

#5. For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another -

Aldous Huxley

#6. You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way that Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible, and therefore irrelevant.

Neil Postman

#8. As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod.

Mei Fong

#9. Courage to act is a daring spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God." (p.207)

Aldous Huxley

#11. In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

#12. 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?

Aldous Huxley

#13. Community, Identity, Stability

Aldous Huxley

#14. For I am you and you are I.

Aldous Huxley

#15. O wonder!' he was saying; and his eyes shone, his face was brightly flushed. 'How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! ... O brave new world! O brave new world that has such people in it.

Aldous Huxley

#16. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

#18. Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.

Aldous Huxley

#19. Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Aldous Huxley

#20. That is the secret of happiness and virtue
liking what you've got to do.

Aldous Huxley

#21. Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!
Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?
Skies are blue inside of you,
The weather's always fine;
For
There ain't no Bottle in all the world
Like that dear little Bottle of mine.

Aldous Huxley

#22. We can always be sure of one thing - that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.

Tim Ward

#24. Without wisdom, man is as the wild ass's colt, running hither and thither, wasting strength which might be profitably employed. Wisdom is the compass by which man is to steer across the trackless waste of life; without it he is a derelict vessel, the sport of winds and waves.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: 'Anthem,' by Ayn Rand; '1984,' by George Orwell; or 'Brave New World,' by Aldous Huxley.

Sara Shepard

#26. And do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.

Aldous Huxley

#27. We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Aldous Huxley

#28. Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it.

Aldous Huxley

#29. In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler's day; consequently the recipients of orders were far less critical than their Nazi counterparts, far more obedient to the order-giving elite.

Aldous Huxley

#30. Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#31. I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we ... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.

Freeman Dyson

#32. I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!

Sara Blakely

#33. If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

Winston Churchill

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness! - From Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

#37. I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I'm under the table
Four and I'm under the host.

Dorothy Parker