Quotes About Soma In Brave New World

Here are the top 99 quotes about Soma in Brave New World:

1. “One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.” – Mustapha Mond

2. “You take it and you’re happy. You don’t take it and you’re unhappy.” – Lenina Crowne

3. “It was a master stroke of ingenious irony to make part of the apparatus of State control a creature that didn’t know its own purpose.” – Mustapha Mond

4. “They say somebody’s got to live underground, because of the shortage of housing, and it’s frightfully unhealthy down there. But the directors of the Conditioning Centre say it’s just the sort of place for Epsilons.” – Fanny Crowne

5. “The perfect drug for the perfect society.” – Mustapha Mond

6. “I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.” – John the Savage

7. “You can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get.” – Mustapha Mond

8. “There’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.” – Mustapha Mond

9. “I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” – John the Savage

10. “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” – Mustapha Mond

11. “The people are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave.” – Mustapha Mond

12. “We prefer to do things comfortably.” – Mustapha Mond

13. “We don’t want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.” – Mustapha Mond

14. “It’s the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. It’s like a second natural instinct. And that’s the basis of our society.” – Mustapha Mond

15. “The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get.” – Mustapha Mond

16. “The greatest triumph of civilization is not in machines that can think, but in the fact that we have created machines that can make us think.” – Mustapha Mond

17. “The people who have been conditioned to love their servitude are the happiest people in the world.” – Mustapha Mond

18. “Isn’t there something in living dangerously?” – John the Savage

19. “I don’t want to be a Beta. I want to be an individual.” – Bernard Marx

20. “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.” – Mustapha Mond

21. “Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t.” – Mustapha Mond

22. “Happiness is never grand.” – Mustapha Mond

23. “If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” – Mustapha Mond

24. “We’ve got to have a religion of some kind.” – Mustapha Mond

25. “You’re not supposed to be so important.” – Lenina Crowne

26. “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.” – John the Savage

27. “They’ll be happy now.” – Lenina Crowne

28. “There’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your mortality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears – that’s what soma is.” – Mustapha Mond

29. “We are not like that. We were not conditioned to behave like that.” – Bernard Marx

30. “The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma.” – Mustapha Mond

31. “They’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave.” – Mustapha Mond

32. “But I like the inconveniences.” – Mustapha Mond

33. “Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt.” – Mustapha Mond

34. “I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.” – Mustapha Mond

35. “It is better to be happy than to be unhappy. But it is also better to be unhappy than to have the wrong kind of happiness.” – Mustapha Mond

36. “We can’t allow science to undo its own good work.” – Mustapha Mond

37. “Happiness is never grand.” – Mustapha Mond

38. “You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them. But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.” – Mustapha Mond

39. “One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.” – Mustapha Mond

40. “We don’t want any of the rough things. And we don’t want any of the soft things. We’ve gone beyond all that.” – Mustapha Mond

41. “The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get.” – Mustapha Mond

42. “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.” – John the Savage

43. “The world’s perfect now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives or children or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma.” – Mustapha Mond

44. “I’d rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.” – Mustapha Mond

45. “We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.” – Mustapha Mond

46. “The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg–eight-ninths below the water line