Brave New World Technology Quotes:

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

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Mean, Technology, Progress, Technological Advancement, Old Technology

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 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

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

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

topic: Powerful, Army, Tyrants, Public Education, Servitude

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Believe, Belief, Brave New World Freedom, Brave New World Happiness, Brave New World Technology

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

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

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.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Views, Silence, Triumph, Media Propaganda, Totalitarianism

‎"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

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

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

- Neil Postman

source: "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

topic: Book, Sea, Irrelevance, Huxley, Depriving

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Communication, Men, Two, Mass Communication, Brave New World Consumerism

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

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

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Unhappy, Savages, Said, Syphilis, Typhoid

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

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

No social stability without individual stability.

- Aldous Huxley

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

"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

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

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

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

topic: Men, Law, People, Brave New World Freedom, Brave New World Happiness

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

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Believe, Night, Thinking, Brave New World Character, Brave New World Freedom

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

The more stitches, the less riches.

- Aldous Huxley

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

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

topic: Punishment, Enemy, Suffering, Huxley, Brave New World Character