Quotes About Huxley Brave New World

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

#7. 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

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

Aldous Huxley

#9. Community, Identity, Stability

Aldous Huxley

#10. 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

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

Robert MacNeil

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

Aldous Huxley

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

#17. Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

J.G. Ballard

#18. 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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Aldous Huxley

#25. 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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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