Brave New World

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

"Truth and beauty are on the same side."

"I feel I ought to do something about it. But I don't feel like doing it."

"I'm afraid of beauty. And I'm afraid of you."

"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."

"Permanence is the one thing we cannot afford."

"Family love is destructive to social stability."

"All the world's a stage, but they've scripted every line."

"The beauty of this world is how nobody questions anything."

"I don't want to be controlled. I want to be free."

"Better to be happy than to be truthful."

"Prometheus is the hero of all those who suffer in silence."

"I read Shakespeare, and now the World State feels hollow."

"Self-denial is not our policy."

"I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly."

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

"How can I be independent when I'm not being myself?"

"We are not our parents. We don't want to be."

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

"I'm not going to go on being hypocritical."

"Modesty forbids...but we've all been happy with you."

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

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

"I don't much like being made fun of about my mother."

"Nothing like a little soma vacation to make you sleep well."

"I almost wish we were able to choose our conditioning."

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

"A gramme is better than a damn."

"There is always some something immensely more interesting to do than whatever thing one actually is doing."

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