Mustapha Mond

"And that, he said, was the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do."

"Stability is socially valuable, but the pursuit of it is individually sterile."

"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude."

"The Savage cannot make good use of his freedom."

"People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get."

"Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism."

"They'll grow up with what the pneumatic woman can teach them."

"You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs."

"Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness."

"All our world is built on that foundation."

"The old world was crazy, absolutely mad."

"No feeling is final."

"The real problem is the desire to behave oneself."

"Art, science, and religion are the three legs of our civilization."

"There's always Soma to give you a holiday from the facts."

"The secret of happiness and virtue is liking what you have to do."

"The condition of being underfed makes the whole worrying question of clothes almost irrelevant."

"Art, science—you seem to forget they're dangerous."

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

"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices."

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

"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good."

"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call the high art."

"That's the price we have to pay for stability."

"They've given you every benefit of science."

"These Savage Reservations are really useful."

"They've conditioned you to be separated from your mother by scores of thousands of miles."

"There is something rather disquieting about the thought of abandoning you here."

"The deepest principles of the World State would be jeopardized if ever I were to permit things to come to a crisis."

"I do love controlling things"