Huxleyan Dystopia Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one. — Nick Harkaway

The past is not another country; it is another life. The texture of daily living is different now than in the past, more different the further back we look, until we find people whose experiences created a psychology we might find baffling or rude. Many details that once made up the daily round are lost to us because people considered them too trivial to write down. Knowing the past means knowing what people carried in their pockets, what they did with their sewage, where their dogs slept. Those details may seem unimportant, but what they convey is not. — Scott Herring

I think I'm like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me. — Lily Allen

That can go in the cabinet, and so can this One Ring. No, don't put it on, you fool! It's dangerous! — Diana Wynne Jones

The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there. — Claudia Gray

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. — Bradley Miller

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died. — Melina Marchetta

The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues. — Haile Gerima

To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what that emotional timbre what is my favorite, my favorite "why" is the question. The other songs also have a revealing quality, but it started with "Sister OK". — Andy Kim

What a silly thing Love is. It is not as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to Philosophy and study Metaphysics. — Oscar Wilde

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love. — Amy Dickinson

What you've already known stops you to wonder and it gives you peace. — Glenda Radores

I love Louisiana. It's amazing. — Johnny Knoxville

So the researchers concluded that being forced to confront trade-offs in making decisions makes people unhappy and indecisive. — Barry Schwartz

In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized. — William Sargant