Quotes About Individuality

Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. But there were also husbands, wives, lovers. There were also monogamy and romance. "Though you probably don't know what those are," said Mustapha Mond. They shook their heads. Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopædic proverb.

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

Si l'on est différent, il est fatal qu'on soit seul.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

After all, what is an individual?

I am I, and wish I wasn't.

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

When psychological education is less rudimentary that it is at present, people belonging to different types will recognize each other's right to exist. Every man will stick to the problems, inward or outward, with which nature has fitted him to deal; and he will restrained, if not by tolerance, at least by the salutary fear of making a fool of himself, from trespassing on the territory of minds belonging to another type.

No sé qué quieres decir. Yo soy libre. Libre de divertirme cuanto quiera. Hoy día todo el mundo es feliz. Bernard rió. -SI, hoy día todo el mundo el feliz. Eso es lo que ya les decimos a los niños a los cinco años. Pero ¿no te gustaría tener la libertad de ser feliz... de otra manera? A tu modo, por ejemplo; no a la manera de todos

Radije ?u ostati ono što jesam,a ne netko drugi,ma koliko on veseo bio.

I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire for freedom and solitude has lead to a not only to a consistent effort to avoid situations in which I would be under the control of other people, but also to an indifference to the satisfactions of power and position, things which impose a servitude...

Oh, these rags and tags of other people's making! Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in it that was truly his own, or was it simply an education?

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

Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what justification can there be for maintaining that the individual is less important than the group of which he is a member?

And if you were an Epsilon,' said Henry, 'your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren't a Beta or an Alpha.

One of the causes, by the way, of the apparent lack, at the present time, of great men lies in the poverty of the contemporary male coiffure. Rich in whiskers, beards, and leonine manes, the great Victorians never failed to look the part, nowadays it is impossible to know a great man when you see one.

Everybody should stick to the insanity that God has seen fit to curse him with.

she wasn't a real savage, had been hatched out of a bottle and conditioned like any one else:

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

From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

Iadul este incapacitatea de a fi altul decat fiinta pe care o descoperi actionand zilnic in numele tau.

Reason is not the same in all men; human beings belong to a variety of psychological types separated one from another by irreducible differences.