Brave New World

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

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

"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy"

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

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

"When you're not satisfied, you have a strong incentive to change things"

"The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg - the greater part submerged"

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated"

"I am my mother's son"

"But I don't want to be happy in any other way"

"Happiness is a hard master"

"What man has joined, no god can ever put asunder"

"The world is stable now"

"I would rather be a swineherd than a Deputy World Controller"

"To be free—to be freer than a eunuch"

"People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get"

"Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism"

"That's why you're taught to love them"

"I'm absolutely happy here, aren't you?"

"Save the Colony!"

"The proper study of mankind is books"

"Cruel? No, it's too true!"

"I want to know what passion is"

"The conditioning has made him... resistant"

"The best world is built on bad literature suppressed"

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

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

"They've been taught to love their servitude"

"How wonderfully modern!"

"I'm afraid of freedom"