Monogamy In Brave New World Quotes

We can't allow science to undo its own good work. ~ Aldous Huxley

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

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? ~ Aldous Huxley

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. ~ Aldous Huxley

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone
quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. ~ Aldous Huxley

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. ~ Aldous Huxley

The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world. ~ Angela Carter

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. ~ Arthur Erickson

A love of nature keeps no factories busy. ~ Aldous Huxley

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag. ~ Linda Chavez

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. ~ Aldous Huxley

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! ~ Aldous Huxley

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. ~ Kenny Loggins

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. ~ Aldous Huxley

I'm a little worried ... Brave New World seems a bit more real everyday ... ~ Solange Nicole

What is too much? There is no such thing! ~ Roberto Cavalli

Monogamy used to mean one person for life. Now monogamy means one person at a time. ~ Esther Perel

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins. ~ Rudyard Kipling

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about ... New. ~ Nas

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley

I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we ... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into. ~ Freeman Dyson

Did you see the frightened ones,
Did you hear the falling bombs,
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies.
Good bye blue skies. ~ Roger Waters

Even in the West, moreover, although the ethical ideal has been absolute monogamy, the legal norm has been merely relative monogamy, which is also known as successive polygamy. ~ J. Budziszewski

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't change"
"Men do though ~ Aldous Huxley

A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in it?"
"Do you?"
"There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves. ~ Agatha Christie

O brave new world,
That has such people in 't!
-Miranda ~ William Shakespeare

I reject monogamy as an affront to evolution. ~ Dan Brown

Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ... But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ... Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. ~ Michael Ondaatje

'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life. ~ Ramez Naam

It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school. ~ Rick Mercer

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me. ~ Sienna Miller

Relatedness and interaction between individuals may have lost their drive and liability. In our contemporary "brave new world", traditional trust or generous receptiveness has been replaced by 'security devices' and 'safety gadgets'. ("Could we leave the door unlocked?") ~ Erik Pevernagie

Today, monogamy is one person at a time. ~ Esther Perel

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.' ~ Lois Lowry

Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love. ~ Marie Helvin

Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option. ~ Dov Davidoff

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea. ~ Germaine Greer

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum. ~ Adam Phillips

Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?"
"Those are brave words, Tiresias."
"New parents can't afford to be anything but brave, Eddie. ~ Joe McKinney

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy? ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence. ~ Amit Ray

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy. ~ Rashida Jones

I think I held on for so long because I kept hearing that the alternative, monogamy, was oppressive. ~ Fabian Romero

Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters ... ~ Richard Linklater

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. ~ Hector Hugh Munro

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony. ~ Rita Rudner

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. ~ George Bernard Shaw

To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths. ~ Laozi

Culture preaches monogamy while Nature repeats it - over and over again. ~ Anthony Marais

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together? ~ Greg Bryk

Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.
Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. ~ Sienna Miller

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world. ~ Aldous Huxley

She [Hillary Clinton] knew that's who he[Bill clinton] was before they got married. It would have been hypocritical for her to insist on monogamy. ~ Rush Limbaugh

O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, ~ William Shakespeare

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die - that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough.
We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer. ~ Alistair MacLean

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway. ~ Betty Dodson

What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda. ~ Aldous Huxley

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. ~ Annie Besant

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. ~ Tom Ford

Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby.
Every vow is a brave new voice. ~ Buddy Wakefield

What I'm putting forth," he said, "is that the four of us make some memories, become fast friends and abandon starchy old mind-sets about monogamy. The world's gone crazy. Let's do the same."
"The answer is no," Dad said. "And I'm surprised I'm not punching you. ~ George Saunders

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but it's not enough. ~ John Patrick Shanley

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ... ~ Ellen Key

I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I'm sorry, but you read science fiction.' ~ Carrie Vaughn

Once more on my adventure brave and new. ~ Robert Browning

O brave new world, that has such stories in't! ~ Jasper Fforde

It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection. ~ Robert Jordan

Almost everywhere people marry, monogamy is the official norm and infidelity the clandestine one. ~ Esther Perel

Sixth-grade sweethearts. Wow. New Yorkers only commit to that type of monogamy with the Yankees or Giants ~ Gwendolyn Heasley

We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave. ~ Marianne Moore

Monogamy and prostitution go together. ~ Kate Millett

How I Learned to Love the New World Order ~ Joe Biden

In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave. ~ Heath Ledger

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you be brave! ~ Sara Barellies Brave

What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness! - From Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

That is the secret of happiness and virtue
liking what you've got to do. ~ Aldous Huxley

We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential. ~ Malala Yousafzai

I love you more than anything in the world combined. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. ~ Robert MacNeil

One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford. ~ Stephen Fry

When falls the Rain, be brave. Be brave. ~ Pierce Brown

Being brave means you create the world you want to live in. ~ Andrea T. Goeglein

Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don't achieve that in reality. ~ Colleen Chen

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave. ~ Kelli O'Hara

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old. ~ Richard Bach

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs. ~ Katherine Center

Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time. ~ Alanis Morissette

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick. ~ B.J. Novak

Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong. ~ Hildegard Of Bingen

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. ~ Douglas MacArthur

She didn't mean anything, Kasia said, brave brave brave, the way I hadn't been for her. ~ Naomi Novik

She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave. ~ Neil Gaiman

The two-thirds rule [of the Senate], which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence. ~ Thomas A. Bailey