Quotes About Choice

which is better—to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas—that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine it!

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

how unfair not to give him that other chance, that other chance which, he now had no doubt at all, he had always intended to take.

what would it be like if I could, if I were free

Era un consejo demasiado bueno como para que yo pudiera seguirlo.

categorical imperative that it is with you. You think first of getting the biggest possible output in the shortest possible time. We think first of human beings and their satisfactions. Changing jobs doesn't make for the biggest output in the fewest days. But most people like it better than doing one kind of job all their lives. If it's a choice between mechanical efficiency and human satisfaction, we choose satisfaction.

Tenemos dos alternativas: por un lado, el hambre, la peste y la guerra; por otro, la regulación de los nacimientos.

But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

Prefiero ser yo mismo. Yo y desdichado, antes que cualquier otro y jocundo.

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.

In spite of his misery he absolutely refused to take the half gramme raspberry sundae which she pressed upon him, I'd rather be myself he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

We are given two choices—famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other.

No te gustaría tener la libertad de ser feliz... de otra manera? A tu modo, por ejemplo; no a la manera de todos.

Ama ba?ka bir ?ekilde mutlu olmak istemez miydin, Lenina? Ba?kalar? gibi de?il, kendi istedi?in gibi.

Hay que elegir entre la felicidad y lo que la gente llamaba arte puro. Nosotros hemos sacrificado el arte puro y en su lugar hemos puesto el sensorama y el órgano de perfumes. - Pero no tienen ningún mensaje. + Si, el mensaje consiste en emitir una gran cantidad de sensaciones agradables para el público.

I'd rather be myself,' he said. 'Myself and unhappy. Not somebody else, however cheerful.

We all confront the parameters of our cage eventually. What we do when we reach those bars helps define us.

in a crisis a man learnt what was real to him and what was unreal; that he became himself, choosing what he really needed.

Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.

My dear papa! I much prefer a smart man of small height than a big dumb idiot!

Non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.

Ho capito che non si cambia veramente mai, non c'è modo di cambiare, come si è da piccoli si è tutta la vita, non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo, disse. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.