One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! (Bernard Marx’s comments …on the effects of state-sponsored sleep teaching.)
“Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able …”
The Director pushed back the switch. The voice was silent. Only its thin ghost continued to mutter from beneath the eighty pillows.
“They’ll have that repeated forty or fifty times more before they wake; then again on Thursday, and again on Saturday. A hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty months. After which they go on to a more advanced lesson.”
“All of the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 3
“Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is! And now expecting them to understand Othello! My good boy!” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16
“You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16
“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 1
“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions… Suggestions from the State.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 2
“Cleanliness is next to fordliness.”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 7
“All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody’s allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn’t be added to except by special permission from the head cook.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16
“We can’t allow science to undo its own good work.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 17
“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 morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 17