Brave New World Consumerism Quotes & Sayings

No matter what a situation or circumstance looks like; know that nothing is ever what it seems. Never loose hope. — Barbara Hart

Shoeburyness n. The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from someone else's bottom. — Steven Pinker

You're going to listen to me, and for once you're going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren't there. — Genna Rulon

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. — William Shakespeare

There's been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I've become weak, I've shown human compassion, and it has weakened me. But no more. Tonight I will once again feast on fear and suffering. My appetite for agony will be awakened. I will once again taste the pain of others. I will feast on the fear of the innocent, and that is the sweetest taste of all. Tonight I hunger for a sacrifice. — Kane

For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent. — Michael Walzer

Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life. — Debasish Mridha

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books. — Aldous Huxley

And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals. — Hugh Nibley

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in. — Toni Morrison

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Summer 2161: Brown, eleven, enrolled in Camp Longhorn by father over strenuous objections of mother. Typical outdoor summer camp in hill country of Texas — Arthur C. Clarke

I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones. — Taron Egerton

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt. — Dennis Miller