Brave New World

"The secret of happiness and virtue is liking what you've got to do"

"What you need is something with tears for a change"

"Brave New World"

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

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

"Stability and civilization are in the last analysis incompatible things"

"The proper study of mankind is books"

"We have the World State now. And drug abuse is death"

"I am my mother"

"Soma has all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects"

"I hadn't realized that the Savage had no ear for music."

"Books, classes, endless lectures, scientific apparatus, experiments."

"The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get."

"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."

"I've gotten old, I'm rather ashamed of it."

"All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny."

"Beauty, beautiful beauty."

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

"Civilized men and women are punished so far as they are individuals."

"The greatest griefs are the ones we make for ourselves."

"I do like him. I don't know why, but I do. There's something about him."

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

"Hell isn't something imposed externally, it's something we create ourselves."

"I want to know what passion is, I want to feel something strongly."

"The thoughts of reason are the thoughts of a world of individual adults."

"I read about a man that used to get himself into the worst of holes and came out of them by sheer will-power."

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

"I'll make you happy. I'll be good."

"Stability. Stability. The primal and the ultimate need."

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