“Clara isn’t struggling because Chris is no longer here. She’s struggling because he’s never coming back. There’s a difference.”
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
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“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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