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It's a brave new world.Collection: Brave New World
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.Collection: Brave New World
O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!Collection: Brave New World
If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.Collection: Brave New World
For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.Collection: Brave New World
The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.Collection: Brave New World
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.Collection: Brave New World
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.Collection: Brave New World
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.Collection: Brave New World
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.Collection: Brave New World
What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?Collection: Brave New World
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.Collection: Brave New World
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.Collection: Brave New World
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.Collection: Brave New World
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.Collection: Brave New World
But every one belongs to every one elseCollection: Brave New World
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.Collection: Brave New World
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.Collection: Brave New World
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.Collection: Brave New World
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.Collection: Brave New World
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.Collection: Brave New World
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.Collection: Brave New World
God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.Collection: Brave New World
The more stitches, the less riches.Collection: Brave New World
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.Collection: Brave New World
No social stability without individual stability.Collection: Brave New World
When the individual feels, the community reels.Collection: Brave New World
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.Collection: Brave New World