I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.' — Alexander Skarsgard 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
The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Truth is unchanging. The principles of morality are unchanging. The human essence is unchanging. Therefore there is no hope of a New… — Peter Kreeft 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
The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Nailed it. So okay. The media says, ‘Girls, women, you can be anything you want to be in this brave new world… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“[On Brave New World] “Mr. Huxley has been born too late. Seventy years ago, the great powers of his mind would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we...… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Hunting Down the Secular Humanists" "...What makes them so dangerous is that Secular Humanists look just like you and me. Some of… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The Obama campaign is one of the greatest examples of what is possible in the brave new world of 21st Century marketing.… — Anne M. Mulcahy 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
“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal… — Molly Caldwell Crosby Copy Share Image
“Those who neglect the roots of order, one may add, are compelled to water those roots desperately—after wandering in the parched wasteland… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“They dream of a world in which their simple and radical way of experiencing and perceiving reality would dominate; [35] where they… — Andrzej Lobaczewski 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
“Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized… — Neil Postman 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
“...A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?" "You don't believe in it?" "Do you?" "There is always… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press…did not foresee…the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“We no longer see Internet tools as products released by for-profit companies, funded by investors hoping to make a return, and run… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World : well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“Non-Tenure Writing Jobs The MLA session on the adjunct crisis indicates where higher education has come to in the Brave New World… — Ira Shor Copy Share Image
“With the rise of Technopoly, one of those thought-worlds disappears. Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Relatedness and interaction between individuals may have lost their drive and liability. In our contemporary “brave new world", traditional trust or generous… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image