Mustapha Mond

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

"Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled."

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

"The World State has kept the lower-caste people happy by making them love their servitude."

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

"Mother, monogamy, motherhood. There's always been something fishy about it."

"Stability. Of course, stability. But who wants to be conscious of stability?"

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

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

"The people who believe in truth and beauty must expect to be persecuted."

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

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

"Conditioning is the only method of really ruling people."

"Self-denial is not our policy."

"Better to be happy than to be truthful."

"Family love is destructive to social stability."

"Permanence is the one thing we cannot afford."

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

"Science is the very antithesis of faith."

"Consider your own lives. Has any of you been reduced by them to a lower caste?"

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

"What you now feel is nothing to what you'll feel when you're back among men again."

"Is it something I've said that disturbs you?"

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

"Mother, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of impulse and energy."

"Stability is the highest achievement of human organization."

"Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial."

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

"Science is a technique of making it possible to do without handle."

"Intellectual passion is the privilege of the few."