Brave New World

"His was a narrow, spiritual world in comparison with our wide world."

"Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism."

"I wish I had a different father."

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

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

"The world's stable now. People are happy."

"I had mated with thousands of women and thousands of women had mated with me."

"Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn unaided."

"A lot of men would be unhappy if they were deprived of the cesspool sludge."

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

"I don't much like it being beautiful here."

"After all, you're not like the old world savage, who didn't know about God or civilization."

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

"You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs."

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

"I'm afraid of missing something good."

"There is always some dirt when there are leaves about."

"And that, as I see it, is the chief function of positive eugenics. To predestine and condition as many human beings as possible to avoid fever of love."

"I am the World's most powerful being"

"You can't play Electra with a chorus of hundreds of lawyers"

"Perfect and absolute freedom in the sphere of action"

"I'm happy now. I think I shall be happy"

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

"But we've sacrificed Shakespeare"

"The more science advances, the more it tends to explain everything in terms of Physics and Chemistry"

"I have had the time of my life"

"We prefer to do things comfortably"

"The truth is like a god. It is the greatest good we can have"

"Comfort and culture aren't compatible"

"Mostly harmless"