Brave New World

"The past is to be kept behind us."

"The greatest happiness principle is all that matters."

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

"The World's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want."

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

"Intellectual passion is the privilege of the few."

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

"The secret's in the breathless intimacy of the embrace."

"Pneumatic love is the only sort of love that works."

"What you need is a scopolamine bath and a Pregnancy Substitute."

"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"Happiness is a hard master."

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

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

"Stability is the highest achievement of human organization."

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

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

"But I like electricity and scent organ and all modern conveniences."

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

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

"I suppose Fanny's right. It is queer to want to do anything after dark."

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

"But I want to know what passion is like."

"I don't care if you offer me ten million women."

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

"I loathe them; I hate them, I despise them."

"What you need is something with tears for a change."

"Science is the very antithesis of faith."

"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."

"I had rather be a swineherd than I would be Orestes."