Quotes About Conformity

Each one of us, of course, the Controller meditatively continued, goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking enormous.

Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

His gravest offence had been to accept the world in which he found himself as normal, rational and right.

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

Time and habit had taken the wrongness out of almost all the acts he had once thought sinful. He performed them as unenthusiastically as he would have performed the act of catching the morning train to the city.

You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

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

To the puritan all things are impure

They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

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?

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.

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.

True, Clara's eyebrows didn't meet. But she was really too pneumatic. Whereas Fifi and Joanna were absolutely right. Plump, blonde, not too large...And it was that great lout, Tom Kawaguchi, who now took the seat between them.

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

Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

New ideas are reasonable if they can be fitted into an already familiar scheme, unreasonable if they cannot be made to fit. Our intellectual prejudices determine the channels along which our reason shall flow.

los hombres no son sólo meros compradores de los productos en serie producidos por los grandes trusts, sino que parecen incluso producidos por la omnipotencia de éstos, perdiendo su propia individuación.

Brave new world

There was something called liberalism (...) Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.