Top 4 Brave new world quotes
"COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY." - Chapter 1
This is the motto for the World State and can be found etched on a shield outside the Hatchery and the Conditioning center. It is important to note here that there is no mention of freedom in the motto, and 'Identity' here doesn't represent the individual but rather the identity that is assigned at birth. Stability is the penultimate goal of the World State and is achieved by ensuring that no individual experiences any strong emotion or passion that causes them to feel separate from society.
"The more stitches the less riches." - Chapter 3
Hypnopaedic teaching encourages citizens to replace torn and broken goods instead of mending them. The World State conditions its citizens to consume goods endlessly, even simple childhood games are converted to include complex machinery. By doing so, the World State can produce a citizenry that consumes all the goods that it produces which then leads to economic prosperity.
"Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else." - Chapter 5
The above is uttered in a conversation between Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne. Here Lenina recalls being woken up in the middle of the night to discover the source of the sound that had haunted her in her sleep. It is a demonstration of the power of the moral conditioning that the citizens have undergone, as they continue to believe in this lie despite the poor conditions of the lower castes in the civilized world.
"So they're having children all the time - like dogs. It's too revolting...And yet John was a great comfort to me." - Chapter 7
Linda says the above to Lenina, both of them have undergone the same conditioning in matters of pregnancy, and yet Linda can overcome it to feel love for her son. This is meant to represent the power of the primal bond between a child and a parent, that overwrites conditioning on the subject.
