"Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms."
"But that's the price we have to pay for stability.
You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.
We've sacrificed the high art."
(Mustapha Mond, Brave New World)
"Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs."
"Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.
Idiots!"
(Bernard Marx, Brave New World)
"From their experience or from the recorded experience
of others (history), men learn only what their passions
and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they
used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
(Brave New World)
"Slowly, majestically, with a faint humming of machinery,
the Conveyors moved forward, thirty-three centimetres an hour.
In the red darkness glinted innumerable rubies."
(Brave New World)
"You can't make flivvers without steel - and you can't make tragedies
without social instability."
(Brave New World)
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations made for misery.
And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability.
And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune,
none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation,
or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt.
Happiness is never grand."
(Mustapha Mond, Brave New World)
"'The optimum population... is modelled on the iceberg -
eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.'
'And they're happy below the water line?'
'Happier than above it.'"
(Brave New World)
"Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.
A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably,
than truth."
(Mustapha Mond, Brave New World)
"'But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?'...
'You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley.
He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct.
As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes
things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.'"
(Brave New World)
"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
"All crosses had their tops cut and became T's."
(Brave New World)
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance.
We don't know because we don't want to know."
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