Brave New World Quotes - Page 2

• One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

  Stephen Fry

  Enemy, Unions, Lines

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• There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Teenage, Children

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Views, Silence

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil, Philosopher, Virtue

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Masters, Supreme, Brave New World John

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Looks, Misery, Stability

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Alcohol, Soma, Christianity

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today.

  Ana Lily Amirpour

  Character, Atmosphere, Today

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We now live in an amazing digital world, and television is firmly part of that brave new world. Television is still the way to reach the most citizens and talk to them – and with them - about how the EU affects their lives. It's still the way to bring people together – to laugh, to debate, to learn. In a world that takes a faster and faster pace, it is nice to know you can slow down once in a while with a good TV programme.

  Neelie Kroes

  Nice, People, Laughing

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• What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.

  Al Feldstein

  War, Taken, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Entering, Unions, Peaches

  Source: www.ign.com

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• We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave New World' where the biggest problem there is how to deal with the fact that everyone is so happy...[W]hat we're going to get is a nanny-type of fascism, if we get one at all...[S]imply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

  Jonah

  Mean, Thug, Might

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• The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

  Aldous Huxley

  Views, Silence, Triumph

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Two, Four

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• [One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

  Charlie Brooker

  Kids, Huxley, Havens

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• It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.

  Rick Mercer

  School, Years, High School

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• I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Thinking, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Years, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Brave New World”, Spark Notes

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• Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Past, Technology, Agriculture

  Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.

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• I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

  Sara Shepard

  Reading, School, Lists

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Tasks, Addresses, Next

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into paradise, we'll have the 'liberty' of living (or rather, or buying the illusion of living), through the benevolent offices of a middleman as nearly omnipotent as god himself. Freedom? A more perfect captivity is difficult to imagine.

  Mark Slouka

  Believe, Perfect, Office

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• What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Thinking, People

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Talent, Greater

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax and spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh... and everybody's high!

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Army, Cells

  "2000 Presidential Election: Bush vs. Gore" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. November 5, 2014.

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