Brave New World

"I've always liked to do things in my own way."

"I want to know what passion is like."

"This is where we keep the books."

"You never know who you're going to like till you try."

"I feel I don't understand anything."

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

"Alone, always alone."

"Most people get the wives it occurs to them to get. But you want to choose one."

"Stability isn't merely an dream, and under perfect conditions total stability could conceivably be achieved."

"Every one belongs to every one else."

"Yes, that's another item in the cost of stability."

"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."

"Pneumatic bliss."

"And that, he said, was the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do."

"I am the most powerful man in the world"

"The deepest instinct of man is to war against war"

"In the past you could only be quiescent in the epoch of stability"

"The world is stable because you are like that"

"I had rather be Oedipus than a World Controller"

"The moral of all this is very obvious"

"I loathe their love. I despise their satisfaction"

"Love, family, art, science—or the passion for the truth"

"The greater the distance from a world that makes sense, the more it will cost in trauma"

"But I don't want comfort. I want God"

"I want to make you free"

"Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism"

"We prefer to do things comfortably"

"I have something to say about the social order"

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

"Science is dangerous"