Brave New World Lenina Quotes:

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

topic: Hipster, Real, Brave New World, World Literature, Brave New World Character

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Happiness, Joy, Wheels, Truth And Beauty, Wheels Turning

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Children, Clever, Stupid, Beastly, Alphas

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Kissing, Drug, Hug, Coma, Soma

But every one belongs to every one else

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism, Brave New World Freedom, Brave New World Happiness, Brave New World John

When the individual feels, the community reels.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

topic: Brave New World, Community, Individual, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Looks, Misery, Compensation, Looking For Happiness, Instability

You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Love, Mother, Children, Not Afraid Of Death, Instability

No social stability without individual stability.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Individual, Social, Stability, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Freedom

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

topic: Happiness, Brave New World, Destiny, Virtue And Happiness, Brave New World Character

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Nasty, Said, Jolly, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism

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

source: Aldous Huxley (2002). “Brave New World”, Spark Notes

topic: Past, Brave New World, Years, Long Suffering, Soma

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Civilization, Medicine, Choices, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism

‎"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

source: Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

topic: Art, Brave New World, People, Price Stability, Brave New World Character

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

topic: Brave New World, Alcohol, Soma, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Unhappy, Savages, Said, Syphilis, Typhoid

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

topic: Brave New World, Bombs, Anthrax, Popping, Brave New World Happiness

I love you more than anything in the world combined.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Happy Mothers Day, I Love You More, Lobster, Flamingos, Multiverse

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

topic: Brave New World, People, Wonder, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism

"All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence. "I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

- Aldous Huxley

source: "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

topic: Pain, Cancer, Long, Syphilis, Typhoid

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

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

topic: Good Work, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Freedom

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

topic: Brave New World, Men, Talent, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism

The more stitches, the less riches.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Stitches, Riches, Mending, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.56, Orient Blackswan

topic: Kind, Tempest, Baseness, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Lenina

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Upset, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Freedom

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

topic: Brave New World, Safe, Shelves, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Freedom

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Men, Powerless, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Consumerism, Brave New World Freedom