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“Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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“And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And 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.”
― Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World
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“Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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“We haven’t any use for old things here.” “Even when they’re beautiful?” “Particularly when they’re beautiful. Beauty’s attractive, and we don’t want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones
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How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Part.Paragraph)
"There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
[…]
"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
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"But they used to take morphia and cocaine." (3.210-4)
Mustapha seems to suggest that some failing on the part of religion to comfort people led to the abuse of drugs and alcohol—but the same is true of conditioning and conformity in his own society.
"Two thousand pharmacologists and bio-chemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
"He does look glum," said the Assistant Predestinator, pointing at Bernard Marx.
"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
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"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
"Glum, Marx, glum." The clap on the shoulder made him start, look up. It was that brute Henry Foster. "What you need is a gramme of
soma
."
"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
"Ford, I should like to kill him!" But all he did was to say, "No, th
Brave New World Quotes
Brave New World Quotes
Quote 1: "Community, Identity, Stability". Chapter 1, pg. 1
Quote 2: "The operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary," The Director, Chapter 1, pg. 5
Quote 3: "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." Chapter 1, pg. 16
Quote 4: "What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder." The Director, Chapter 2, pg. 22
Quote 5: "These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant." The Director, Chapter 2, pg. 24
Quote 6: "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm 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 to read or wr
Soma in Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World
"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
"..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon..."
"Benito was notoriously good-natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma. The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. Reality for Benito was always sunny."
"you do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma."
"Soma was served with the coffee. Lenina took two half-gramme tablets and Henry three."
"the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was! "
"Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds."
"The service had begun. The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. The loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed fr