Quotes About Progress

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions.

industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

The problem of rapidly increasing numbers in relation to natural resources, to social stability and to the well-being of individuals—this is now the central problem of mankind; and it will remain the central problem certainly for another century, and perhaps for several centuries thereafter.

Yes, Mustapha Mond was saying, that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

The triumph of humanism is the defeat of humanity.

Oh Ford, oh Ford!

Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's

Public health and social reform are the indispensable preconditions of any kind of general enlightenment

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive.

the goddess of Applied Science has presented the world with another gift, more precious even than these—the means of dissociating love from propagation.

The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning—for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

I ate civilization.

DziÄ™ki ci, Fordzie! Nie byÅ' ostatni. Trzy spoÅ›ród dwunastu ustawionych wokóÅ' okrÄ…gÅ'ego stoÅ'u krzeseÅ' byÅ'y jeszcze nie zajÄ™te. WÅ›liznÄ…Å' siÄ™ na najbli?sze z nich w miarÄ™ niepostrze?enie i oto ju? gotów byÅ' marszczy? brwi na widok wchodzÄ…cych spó?nialskich. - Bernard Marks, Nowy wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat Aldous Huxley

But industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness

Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential

Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150.

The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.

Every change is a menace to stability.

science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

Thanks to the realistic ideas handed down by culture, mankind has survived and, in certain fields, progresses. But thanks to the pernicious nonsense drummed into every individual in the course of his acculturation, mankind, though surviving and progressing, has always been in trouble. History is the record, among other things, of the fantastic and generally fiendish tricks played upon itself by culture-maddened humanity. And the hideous game goes on.