Brave New World Lenina Quotes

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.

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

I’d rather be myself,” he said. “Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

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

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.

No social stability without individual stability.

But every one belongs to every one else

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

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

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

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

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

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

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!

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