Mustapha Mond

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

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

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

"A lot of men would be unhappy if they were deprived of the cesspool sludge."

"Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn unaided."

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

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

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

"That's the price we have to pay for the incredible stability of our civilization."

"Stability is also rather dull. That's the price we have to pay."

"The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time"

"How much truth can the individual psyche take"

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

"Happiness and virtue used to be difficult virtues to attain"

"Yes, that's the price we have to pay for stability"

"Civilization has absolutely nothing to do with niceness"

"The world's stable now, people are happy"

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

"The secret's kept, I don't know how."

"The perfection of machinery has been reached. What's left? Only the perfection of the human being."

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything."

"The primal and ultimate need of human beings is to feel that their existence is justified."

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

"We have the World State now. And Ford's Ford has foreseen it."

"Stability. The primal and ultimate need."

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

"Youth is wasted on the young."

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

"We sacrifice the freedom of individuals for the good of the whole."

"I'm not a World Controller. You are. You're not a World Controller."