Quotes by Brave New World What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia. Al Feldstein brave-new-world taken war 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. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world past thinking 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. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world army powerful No social stability without individual stability. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world individual social 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? Aldous Huxley brave-new-world giving fall 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. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world silence views All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. Aldous Huxley syphilis brave-new-world unhappy What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? Aldous Huxley anthrax brave-new-world bombs Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world freedom views On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world rolling guilt What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world-john brave-new-world men If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world addresses tasks 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. Aldous Huxley hipster brave-new-world real Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world holiday reality Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world culture book Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! Aldous Huxley brave-new-world truth two Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world joy happiness Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world kissing drug The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world eight water 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. Aldous Huxley brave-new-world past years 1234»