Brave New World

"Stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability"

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

"I do love controlling things"

"The deepest principles of the World State would be jeopardized if ever I were to permit things to come to a crisis."

"There is something rather disquieting about the thought of abandoning you here."

"They've conditioned you to be separated from your mother by scores of thousands of miles."

"These Savage Reservations are really useful."

"They've given you every benefit of science."

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

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

"I don't like the idea of conditioning people in ways that make them, in the conventional sense, unfit."

"Humanity's moving on. Progress is lovely."

"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good."

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

"I'm glad I was born in the twentieth century."

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

"After all, they're mad."

"The secret's out. I'm going to have a baby."

"He's more of a social embryo."

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

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

"The condition of being underfed makes the whole worrying question of clothes almost irrelevant."

"And that, he reflected, was the final and supreme indignity."

"I can't help it."

"Mud-eating worms."

"I have the right to be unhappy."

"Who's playing?"

"Throw the switch."

"I love you."

"How can I be real if I obey?"