Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

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  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    'All right, then,' said the Savage, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'
    'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and weak; the right to suffer disease; the right to have too little to eat; the right to live in constant fear of what may happen tomorrow; the right to fall a victim to pains of every kind.'
    There was a long silence.
    'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.
    Mustapha Mond spoke slowly. 'You're welcome,' he said.
  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    'All the difference in the world. People used to turn to God when they were growing old and troubled and tired of the world. In the modern world we've got youth and happiness right up to the end. What follows? Evidently, that we can be independent of God. "Religious feeling will make up to us all our losses", says the writer of one of these old books. But we haven't any losses to be made up. We don't need religious feeling.'
  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    'The ideal population,' said Mustapha Mond, 'is like an iceberg - eight-ninths below the waterline, one-ninth above.'
    'And they're happy below the waterline?'
    'Happier than above it. Happier than your friends here, for example.'
  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    Why was the old fellow such a wonderful propaganda writer? Because he had so many really strong feelings, so many strange ideas to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset. Otherwise you can't think of the really good phrases, those that strike at the mind and the heart and live in the memory.
  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    He could only half-understand the words, but they were full of a beautiful and terrible magic.
  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    And slowly, raised by hands from below, there came up from the one a painted image of a large bird, from the other that of a man, naked and nailed to a cross.
  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    More on my own, not so completely a part of something else
  • David Signerhas quoted8 years ago
    Where there is comfort there is no need for God.
  • David Signerhas quoted8 years ago
    All the difference in the world. People used to turn to God when they were growing old and troubled and tired of the world. In the modern world we've got youth and happiness right up to the end. What follows? Evidently, that we can be independent of God.
  • Roman Vlasovhas quoted8 years ago
    The feet of the Greater Being.' Again it repeated the words: 'The feet of the Greater Being.' The whisper almost died. 'The feet of the Greater Being are on the stairs.'
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