Brave New World Lenina Quotes

I’d rather be myself,” he said. “Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

The more stitches, the less riches.

No social stability without individual stability.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

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

You’ve got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can’t think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

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

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

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.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

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

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

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

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

‎”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.

When the individual feels, the community reels.