Brave New World Lenina Quotes

I love you more than anything in the world combined.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

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

When the individual feels, the community reels.

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

But every one belongs to every one else

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

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

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

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

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

‎"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.

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

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

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

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.