Brave New World John Quotes

The more stitches, the less riches.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.

No social stability without individual stability.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

We can’t allow science to undo its own good work.

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

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

‎”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.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

But every one belongs to every one else

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

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

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.