p7 - “The principle of mass production at last applied to biology.” to produce perfectly effecient workers at various intellectual levels as to not complain or even think about life outside of their monotonous “purpose” or “unescapable social destiny”.

p23 - “A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature.”

p34 - “History is bunk. … rumours of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller’s study.”

p39 - “Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. The world was full of fathers — was therefore full of misery; full of mothers — therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts — full of madness and suicide.”

p40 - “’every one belongs to every one else’ … the hypnopaedic proverb”

p42 - “‘Stablity’, said the Controller, ‘stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.’

Cogs

p45 - “Has any of you ever encountered an insurmountable obstacle?”

p45 - “reformers came along and offered to deliver them from those horrible emotions”

p55 - “‘remember that a gramme is better than a damn’”

p70 - “Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly.”

p74 - “‘Epsilons don’t really mind being Epsilons’ … How can they? They don’t know what it’s like being anything else.”

p91 - “what would it be like if I could, if I were free — not enslaved by my conditioning? … I don’t know what you mean. I am free.”

p94 - “I want to know what passion is … I want to feel something strongly”

p103 - “‘savage’ reservations” “… about sixty thousand Indians and half-breeds … absolute savages … our inspectors occassionally visit … otherwise, no communication whatever with the civilized world … still preserve their repulsive habits and customs … marriage, if you know what that is, my dear young lady; families … no conditioning … monstrous superstitions … Christianity and totemism and ancestor worship … extinct languages”

p110 - ==“civilization is sterilization”==

p122 - “Being mad’s infectious”

p137 - “I wanted to know what it was like being crucified. Hanging there in the sun… Better than taking soma…”

p148 - ==“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes Society itself."==

p182 - “they’ve had at least a quarter of a million warnings against solitude.”

p220 - In order to have the highest of highs, you have to have lows. You can’t have stability and experience the most highest of highs. Is this a tradeoff we’re willing to make? Would you rather have stability or get to experience truly magical, unexplainable, moments?

p222 - “Why don’t you make everybody an Alpha Double Plus while you’re about it? … A society of Alphas couldn’t fail to be unstable and miserable. Image 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. … An Alpha-decanted, Alpha-conditioned man would go mad if he had to do Epsilon Semi-Moron work. … Each one of us, of course … goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking, enormous. … You cannot pour upper-caste champagne-surrogate into lower-caste bottles. … The optimum population … is modelled on the iceberg — eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

p225 - “science is dangerous”

p227 - “Happiness is a hard master”

p231 - “God in the safe and Ford on the shelves”

p240 - “‘I don’t want comfort. I want God. I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.’ … ‘you’re claiming the right to be unhappy’”