Brave New World

Book · 5 characters · 516 quotes · 1932

Quotes from Brave New World

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"One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments."
Lenina Crowne Happiness
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"Out, damned spot! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean?"
John the Savage
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"Father! Oh most lamentable father!"
John the Savage Family
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"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine."
Mustapha Mond Faith
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"What did you do that for? I didn't want you to."
Lenina Crowne
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"I'd rather be happy than dignified."
Lenina Crowne Happiness
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
Mustapha Mond Philosophy
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"We can't allow things like stability."
Mustapha Mond
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"I do love you."
John the Savage Love
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"The primal crime was love."
John the Savage Love
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"You can't make flivvers without steel—and you can't make tragedies without social instability."
Mustapha Mond Philosophy
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"Come, little lover!"
Lenina Crowne Relationships
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"Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended."
Mustapha Mond Philosophy
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"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art."
Mustapha Mond Art
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"They're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to."
Mustapha Mond
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"I had mated with so many men that I had lost count."
Lenina Crowne Relationships
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"Pneumatic women and scent-organs instead of art."
John the Savage Art
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"I'm afraid of being happy."
Lenina Crowne Fear
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"That's the price we have to pay for stability."
Mustapha Mond Peace
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"Stability is obviously better than truth."
Mustapha Mond Truth
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"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
John the Savage Freedom
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."
Mustapha Mond Happiness
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"One cannot have exemplary institutions with unexemplary individuals."
Mustapha Mond Leadership
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"The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time."
Mustapha Mond Technology
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"You've been taught that there's something called science and something called religion and that they're always in conflict."
Mustapha Mond Knowledge
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"I love you. But I love you as I should love the World Controller - with all my heart and all my soul."
Lenina Crowne Relationships
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"The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time."
Mustapha Mond Technology
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"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."
John the Savage Freedom
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."
Bernard Marx Happiness
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"I do love you. And that's why it's awful, I want you to have children."
John the Savage Family