Brave New World

Book · 5 characters · 516 quotes · 1932

Quotes from Brave New World

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"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices"
Mustapha Mond Philosophy
J
"I don't want comfort. I want God"
John the Savage Faith
L
"Mother, Ford, Mother!"
Lenina Crowne
J
"The island of truth lies somewhere beyond soma."
John the Savage Truth
L
"I was taught to always be accessible and friendly."
Lenina Crowne Education
J
"The love of nature keeps out vice."
John the Savage Nature
L
"You need something with a bit of pep to it."
Lenina Crowne Work
L
"We go together. We belong together."
Lenina Crowne Relationships
J
"The proper study of mankind is books."
John the Savage Literature
J
"Happy people have no need of God."
John the Savage Faith
J
"I want to know what passion is like."
John the Savage Adventure
L
"What you need is chemistry."
Lenina Crowne Science
L
"I hate you. But I still want you to have the finest evening ever with me."
Lenina Crowne Relationships
L
"One cannot be interested in just one person alone."
Lenina Crowne Relationships
J
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin."
John the Savage Freedom
B
"I am my mother. My mother is me."
Bernard Marx Family
J
"Mother, I don't want you. I don't want a mother."
John the Savage Relationships
M
"Stability. The primal and the ultimate need"
Mustapha Mond
L
"You can always find something to do when you don't have to earn a living"
Lenina Crowne Work
J
"The love that consists in this revelation of two souls to each other is unknown here"
John the Savage Love
M
"One cannot have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for"
Mustapha Mond Wisdom
J
"I do not like this organization"
John the Savage
J
"The Savage stood for a moment looking at them, his face flushed, his eyes blazing with anger and something else—a passion the Civilized could not understand"
John the Savage Freedom
M
"Our civilization is achieved through technological prowess and chemical control."
Mustapha Mond Science
M
"All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny."
Mustapha Mond Power
M
"You can't write about nature in the Brave New World."
Mustapha Mond Nature
M
"Every one works for every one else."
Mustapha Mond Work
J
"A bottle of mine own vintage."
John the Savage Creativity
J
"Self-denial is the road to virtue."
John the Savage
J
"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best."
John the Savage Creativity