| “And that […] 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” | Speaker: The DirectorMeaning: World State controls everyone, reduced freedom equates to happinessWhen: After Mr. Foster refers to the conditioning process during the tourPossible words removed: “happiness”, “virtue”, “unescapable”, “social”, “destiny”` |
| “Till last the child’s mind is these suggestions and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too — all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides — made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions! […] Suggestions from the State” | Speaker: The DirectorMeaning: Refers to hypnopaedia and that people are built upon the ideas of the StateWhen: During the tour (says this to the students)Possible words removed: “child”, “adult”, “suggestions”, “State” |
| “But queer that Alphas and Betas won’t make any more plants grow than those nasty little Gammas and Deltas and Epsilons down there” | Speaker: LeninaMeaning: Proves that Lenina is no different than any other high-class person, bashing the lower-classWhen: When Lenina and Henry discuss how people in the World State are crematedPossible words removed: “Alphas, “Betas”, “Gammas”, “Deltas”, “Epsilons” |
| “Thank Ford […] He’s all right again” | Speaker: LeninaMeaning: Referring to Bernard and is saying he has finally come to his sensesWhen: Bernard feels her upPossible words removed: “Ford” |
| “Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only the individual — and, after all what is an individual? […] We can make a new one with the greatest ease — as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself” | Speaker: The DirectorMeaning: Individual is unimportant in the World State as anyone can be easily replacedWhen: While talking to Henry about the danger of Bernard’s different behaviorPossible words removed: “heinous”, “unorthodoxy”, “individual”, “Society” |
| “Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here” | Speaker: JohnMeaning: Referring to the lying happiness that is at the World StateWhen: After Bernard says that his life before this success was unhappyPossible words removed: “unhappy”, “false”, “lying” |
| “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” | Speaker: John Meaning: Preferred having the struggles of a regular human than having the World State brainwash youWhen: In response to Mustapha’s assertion that people in the World State prefer comfort over inconvenience Possible words removed: “comfort”, “God”, “poetry”, “danger”, “freedom”, “goodness”, “sin” |
| “Everybody’s happy nowadays” | Possible words removed: “happy” |
| “The social body persists although the component cells may change” | Possible words removed: “social”, “persists”, “component”, “cells” |
| “Civilization is sterilization” | Possible words removed: “Civilization”, “sterilization” |
| “Every one belongs to everyone else.” | Possible words removed: “belongs” |
| “When the individual feels, the community reels.” | Possible words removed: “individual”, “community”, “reels” |
| “History is bunk” | Possible words removed: “History”, “bunk” |
Brave New World Quotes & Hypnopaedia Lines
June 7, 2020