Brave New World

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

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

"I could make so many people happy."

"I like the Reservation. There's something rather marvellous about the whole thing."

"A real experience is a painful experience."

"A bottle of mescal in each hand."

"I had moulted."

"Art, science—you seem to have paid a fairly high price for stability."

"I was trying to make him feel bad."

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

"Remember that, Chris, remember that!"

"I love you. And I should like to change you, to make you admirable, to improve you."

"Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy, plays the strong jet of my maturity."

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

"I suppose Lenina's right. She usually is."

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

"They've gone and made me feel quite unwanted."

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

"I'm thinking of having her transferred to one of the Iceland Conditioning Centres."

"Pneumatic excellence."

"I want to make you unhappy."

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

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

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

"They don't teach it at school, you know."

"I've grown so fond of you."

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

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

"I'm not interested in the greater happiness. It always nauseates me."

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