Book: Brave new world. Page 3

Stream arrested by the barrier that swells and overflows, the urge turns to impulse, to passion, even madness; the strength of the flow multiplied by the height and strength of the barrier. When is no obstacle, the stream flows smoothly in its appointed channels into a calm well-being.

If he had the smallest sense, he'd understand that his punishment is really a reward. He's being sent to the island. That is sent to where it will be most interesting set of men and women in the world. All the people who, for one reason or evolved consciousness to such an extent that they became unsuitable for life in our society. All those who aren't satisfied with Orthodoxy, who have their own independent views. In short, all those who something is.

This is the secret of happiness and virtue: love what you are destined.

Not wishing evil to exactly the same hurt as those who.

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. But it turns out that the opposite happens. Mental excess could produce conscious, deliberate blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

When people are suspicious, then start being suspicious.

To do without persecution, liquidation and the other symptoms of social conflict, have positive aspects make propaganda as effective as negative. The most important "the Manhattan projects" of the future will be grandiose, organized by the governments of the study that policy and involved scientists call the "problem of happiness", referring to the problem of instilling in people a love for slavery. However, the love of slavery is unattainable in the absence of economic security; in the interests of brevity I make here the assumption that the all-powerful Executive and it administrators will be able to solve the problem of this constant security.

In fact, if we do not elect the path of decentralization and applied science will not apply as a means to create a community of free individuals (and not as the purpose for which people are appointed to serve only as a means), then we will only have two options: either a number of national, militarized, totalitarian States, stemming from the fear of the atomic bomb and its consequence - the destruction of civilization (or, if military action would be limited, the perpetuation of militarism); or else one supranational totalitarian state generated by social chaos - the result of rapid technological progress in General and the atomic revolution in particular; and the state is under the influence of the need for efficiency and stability will develop in prosperity tyranny.

To serve happiness, especially the happiness of others, much more difficult than to serve the truth, if you're not shaped to serve blindly.

And in a spiritual sense his home was as filthy and dirty as physically. Psihologicheski it was a cesspool, the rabbit hole, hot, heated by mutual friction clenched in her life, reeking with emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group! Like a lunatic, shaking the mother over their children (their own! family!) - neither give nor take, like cats over kittens, but the cat, who can tirelessly repeat: "My baby, my baby". "Oh, my baby, the hunger, and clung to his chest, on the little hands, that unspeakable bitter sweetness! But I fell asleep and my baby fell asleep my baby, and his lips white bubbles of milk. My little baby sleeps...".
- Yes, - nodded his head to Mustapha Mond, - you may well shudder.

What man has joined, nature is powerless to divide.

In actual happiness always looks miserable next to the flowery prikrasni unhappiness. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And satisfaction completely devoid of romance battles with evil rock, there are colorful of the struggle with temptation, no ghosting disastrous doubts and passions. Happiness is never Grand.

Because our world is not the same as Othello's world. As for "fords" the necessary steel, for tragedies of the necessary social instability. Now the world is stable. People are happy; they get what they want, and are not able to want what can't have. They live in prosperity, in safety; I do not know the sickness; not afraid of death; not blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they do not poison the lives of the fathers, the mothers; they have no wives, no children, no love - and, therefore, no worries; they are so formed that virtually cannot get out of the framework laid...

One of the main purpose of a friend is to suffer (in milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable to inflict upon our enemies.