Conditioned to believe

Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears—that’s what…

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none…

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.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Mustapha Mond: We prefer to do things comfortably. John: 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. Mustapha Mond: In fact…