Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”

“I am I, and wish I wasn’t”;

“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

Happiness is never grand.”

civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency.

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”