Quotes from Brave New World

By Aldous Huxley (1939)

• The sciences of matter can be applied in such a way that they will destroy life or make the living of it impossibly complex and uncomfortable; but, unless used as instruments by the biologists and psychologists, they can do nothing to modify the natural forms and expressions of life itself.#
  Science
• Assuming that we are capable of learning as much from Hiroshima as our forefathers learned from Magdeburg, we may look forward to a period, not indeed of peace, but of limited and only partially ruinous warfare.#
  History
• Rapid technological changes, taking place in a mass-producing economy and among a population predominantly propertyless, have always tended to produce economic and social confusion. To deal with confusion, power has been centralized and government control increased.#
  HistoryPolitics
• Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.#
  Politics
• As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.#
  Politics
• One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.#
  Proverb
• What fun it would be if one didn’t have to think about happiness!#
  Proverb