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- Aldous Huxley
- 1932
- “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.
- “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.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.
- “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability.
- “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.
- On danger, freedom and sin. “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 incites chaos when he throws out the soma, a government-sponsored drug, at a hospital.
- On the dullness of happiness. “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability.
- On being conditioned to believe. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” In this utopia—er, dystopia—people are brainwashed, or hypnopaedia-ed, from the day they’re born (and born from bottles, at that).
- On remorse. “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
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If you’re wondering what the most popular Brave New World quotes are, here are the ten lines from the book with the highest number of votes on Goodreads, ranging from over 5,000 votes for the top quote all the way to around 500 votes for number 10. Note that some of the top quotes on Goodreads were actually not from the book but from Huxley on othe...
When I first read Brave New Worldin its entirety recently, I made over 70 highlights in the book. I won’t include the ones that are already in the top 10 above, but here are 40 of the lines I found most noteworthy, in order of when they appear in the book: 11. “Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind these coup...
Want more fascinating quotes from Brave New World? Well, at this point, the best way for you to find those is most likely to read the book. Here’s a quick overview and link to Amazon (affiliate). You can also ready our summary of the book by clicking the green button.
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28 of the best book quotes from Brave New World. 01. “For in the end, [Huxley] was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in ‘Brave New World’ was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” Aldous Huxley. ᐧ. Neil Postman. authors. Brave New World
Jan 29, 2020 · These key quotes from Huxley's 'Brave New World' emphasize the novel's themes of technological advancements, sexuality, and individuality in a dehumanizing society.
