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Aldous Huxley Quotes about Brave New World

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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

Powerful, Army, Brave New World

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

No social stability without individual stability.

Brave New World, Individual, Social

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

Past, Brave New World, Thinking

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Brave New World, Views, Silence

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

Kissing, Brave New World, Drug

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Freedom, Brave New World, Views

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Brave New World, Men, Talent

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Fall, Brave New World, Giving

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Brave New World, Unhappy, Syphilis

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Brave New World, Community, Individual

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

Brave New World, Destiny, People

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Brave New World, Tasks, Addresses

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

Brave New World, Looks, Misery

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

Past, Brave New World, Years

Aldous Huxley (2002). “Brave New World”, Spark Notes

But every one belongs to every one else

Brave New World, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Truth, Brave New World, Two

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Brave New World, Bombs, Anthrax

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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.

Brave New World, Masters, Supreme

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Happiness, Brave New World, Joy

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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

Brave New World, Men, Brave New World John

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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.

Real, Hipster, Brave New World

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Brave New World, Eight, Water

Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

The more stitches, the less riches.

Brave New World, Stitches, Riches

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

Holiday, Reality, Brave New World

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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