Brave New World John Quotes

No social stability without individual stability.

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.

The more stitches, the less riches.

All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.

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

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

‎”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.

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

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

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.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

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

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

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

When the individual feels, the community reels.

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

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