23 quotes
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” said Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.”
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
It is a political axiom that power follows property.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Rational and kindly behavior tends to produce good results and these results remain good even when the behavior which produced them was itself produced by a pill.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious—it makes little or no difference.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)