BRAVE NEW WORLD BEST QUOTES

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” – Mustapha Mond

“A gramme is always better than a damn.” – Lenina Crowne

“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.” – John the Savage

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.” – Mustapha Mond

“You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art.” – Mustapha Mond

“I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.” – Lenina Crowne

“Civilization has no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency.” – Mustapha Mond

“You can’t learn a science unless you know what it’s all about.” – Henry Foster

“One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.” – Helmholtz Watson

“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg – eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above.” – Mustapha Mond

“It’s curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At quite an early age, thirty or thereabouts, I forgot how to say ‘I.’ ‘You,’ ‘We,’ and the plural pronoun were still normal modes of reference.” – Bernard Marx

“Everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without anyone. Even Epsilons are useful.” – Organizational motto

“You’ve got to be a first-rater or nothing.” – Mustapha Mond

“O brave new world that has such people in it.” – John the Savage

“All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” – Mustapha Mond

“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” – Linda BEST QUOTES ABOUT SELF LIFE

“We prefer to do things comfortably.” – Mustapha Mond

“For her there was no need for words; he could have her without troubling to win her.” – Narrator

“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.” – John the Savage

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.” – Mustapha Mond

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” – John the Savage

“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.” – Mustapha Mond

“But I like the inconveniences.” – Mustapha Mond

“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” – Linda

“Ending is better than mending.” – World State motto

“When the individual feels, the community reels.” – Mustapha Mond

“It is better for one to die than to live a degrading life.” – World State saying

“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” – Mustapha Mond

“Which will it be, happiness or truth?” – Mustapha Mond

“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.” – John the Savage