Mustapha Mond

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

"Stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability"

"They've been taught to love their servitude"

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

"The best world is built on bad literature suppressed"

"The conditioning has made him... resistant"

"That's why you're taught to love them"

"Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism"

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

"The world is stable now"

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated"

"The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg - the greater part submerged"

"When you're not satisfied, you have a strong incentive to change things"

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery"

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

"The greatest happiness for the greatest number"

"Our world is not the same as Othello's world"

"The World State doesn't need to be brutal; it can be gentle"

"The secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do"

"You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs"

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

"The World State exists to make people happy, not free"

"The question is whether you can tolerate having things the way they are"

"Happiness is a hard master."

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

"Facts are ventilation holes for emotional relief."

"The greatest tragedy in history."

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

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."

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