Quote #44

'Univeral happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't' - Mustapha Mond

More from Aldous Huxley

  1. 'The optimum population is modelled on the iceberg-- eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above' - Mustapha Mond
  2. 'We`ve gone on controlling ever since. It hasn't been good for truth, of course. But it's been good for happiness' - Mustapha Mond
  3. 'All the benefits of Alcohol and Christianity, with none of the defects' (on Soma)
  4. 'Well, I`d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happyness you were having here' - John
  5. 'The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.'
  6. 'You can't consume much if you sit still and read books'
  7. 'Particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fret…
  8. 'But liberty, as we all know, cannout flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent cri…

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