BRAVE NEW WORLD QUOTES ABOUT FREEDOM

“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

“The right to be unhappy is the basic right of man.” – Mustapha Mond

“The price of liberty, and even of common humanity, is eternal vigilance.” – Mustapha Mond

“The savage caught a glimpse of something beyond, something terrible beyond humanity’s narrow self-imprisoned walls.” – Narrator

“Liberty, especially individual liberty, is often incompatible with social stability.” – Mustapha Mond

“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?” – John the Savage

“The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave.” – Mustapha Mond

“I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.” – John the Savage

“Give me my soma!” – Lenina Crowne

“O brave new world that has such people in it. Let’s start at once.” – John the Savage

“It’s liberty to be allowed to die together, if we want to. Dying together is the most wonderful thing of all.” – Linda

“Don’t you want to be free and men? Don’t you even understand what manhood and freedom are?” – John the Savage

“I claim them all, for one man and all men. In my mind and in my heart, they are not separate from me, but a part of me, the whole of me.” – John the Savage

“And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts.” – Mustapha Mond

“All the same, they’re islands. And don’t you realize that there’s something queer about those islands as well? Don’t you realize that they’re not like us? They’re something different. They’re something threatening.” – Helmholtz Watson

“You can’t have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.” – Mustapha Mond FUNNY SELF PROMOTION QUOTES

“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

“People are afraid of themselves nowadays. They have forgotten humanity.” – Mustapha Mond

“No civilisation without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.” – Mustapha Mond

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

“Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard.” – Lenina Crowne

“The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get… Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by-passion or doubt.” – 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

“You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.” – Linda

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

“My dear young friend… civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.” – Mustapha Mond

“The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead others astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.” – Mustapha Mond

“Happiness and stability!” – Lenina Crowne

“For a few minutes more the old men continued to stare at the young one. Then, suddenly, angrily, the young man dashed his undamaged glass to the floor. “Yes, I am, I’m unhappy. I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

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