Brave New World Quotations

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

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

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

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

But every one belongs to every one else

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.