Brave New World

"I want freedom to be unhappy"

"The Savage reservation"

"Stability is obviously good, too. You don't object to stability, do you?"

"We have sacrificed humanity for peace."

"Violence is the only remaining authentic experience."

"Happiness and truth cannot coexist."

"Instability is the price of progress."

"Beauty requires ugliness for comparison."

"I don't want to be safe; I want meaning."

"In the World State, everyone is happy."

"The savage is right—we've sacrificed everything for peace."

"Progress requires the absence of choice."

"Words like liberty and passion mean nothing here."

"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."

"Beauty, passion, and danger—all suppressed."

"The truth about the past."

"I'm glad I'm not you."

"The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want."

"Science is dangerous; we have to keep it socially useful."

"I had mated with millions; it was, so to speak, inconceivable."

"A gramme is better than a damn."

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

"Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness."

"I'm glad I was conditioned the way I was."

"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 should like to take him to Eton."

"How appallingly familiar their circumstances make them to me!"

"I am my own master and my own slave."

"I am not interested in the happiness of my subjects"

"Brave New World"