Brave New World quotes

• "One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
• "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."
• "I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly."
• "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
• "If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely."
• "Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability."
• "I like being myself. Myself and nasty."
• "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution."
• "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."
• "Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays."
• "Nothing costs enough here."
• "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
• "Pain was a fascinating horror."
• "Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. . . ."