“In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!" - From Brave New World” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But wouldn’t you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted! Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted? Skies are blue inside of you,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“O brave new world, O brave new world...' In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tune. They had mocked… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change. Recent developments in Russia… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler’s day;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“O wonder!' he was saying; and his eyes shone, his face was brightly flushed. 'How many goodly creatures are there here! How… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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