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Quotes About Brave New World

Fortunate boys!' said the Controller. 'No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy - to preserve you, so as far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.' 'Ford's in his flivver,' murmured the DHC. 'All's well with the world.
~ Aldous Huxley
In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler's day; consequently the recipients of orders were far less critical than their Nazi counterparts, far more obedient to the order-giving elite.
~ Aldous Huxley
Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness
~ Aldous Huxley
A gramme in time saves time
~ Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
~ truculently.
In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World... [Quote taken from Aldous Huxley's letter to George Orwell 21 October, 1949]
~ Aldous Huxley
A gramme is better than a damn.
~ Aldous Huxley
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
~ Chuck Schumer
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:- That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins From The Gods of the Copybook Headings
~ Rudyard Kipling
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Nineteen Eighty-Four is not the novel that previews what's coming; it's rather Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The contemporary social critic James Poulos calls this the "Pink Police State": an informal arrangement in which people will surrender political rights in exchange for guarantees of personal pleasure.
~ Rod Dreher
Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.
~ Roger Waters
Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder Why we had to run for shelter When the promise of a brave new world Unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?
~ Roger Waters
Orwell envisioned a future in which an all-seeing dictatorship would stamp out free thinking and outlaw human intimacy. But the internet has given us something far closer to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four.
~ Edward Luce
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
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
~ Stockwell Day
You have to design your life like it's a fresh America. An unseen brave new world sits before you. Every. Single. Day. What are you going to do about it?
~ Marisha Pessl
Well Good Luck Pilgrim
~ John Wayne
Martyrdom is the new beginning for revolutionary leaders. It enlighten the path of freedom upon which people fear to walk due to darkness.
~ Bahram Baloch
The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.
~ Dada Vaswani
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.
~ Ayn Rand
Will Huxley's Brave New World come true one day in all its improbability and chilling inhumanity?
~ Erich von Däniken
Needlepaw. .
~ Erin Hunter
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World