![]() ![]() I claim them all,' said the Savage at last. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent the right to have syphilis and cancer, the right to have too little to eat the right to be lousy the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow the right to catch typhoid the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. High spurts the fountain fierce and foamy the wild jet. Questions About Drugs and Alcohol Everyone makes a big deal out of the fact that soma doesnt have the nasty after-effects of, say, alcohol (hangovers, guilt, shame, pregnancy). In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. 'We prefer to do things comfortably.'īut I don't want comfort. ![]() All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconvenience.' It's the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. It's one of the conditions of perfect health. What?' questioned the Savage, uncomprehending. 'Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time.' 28 of the best book quotes from Brave New World 01 Share For in the end, Huxley was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in ‘Brave New World’ was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking. There's a great deal in it,' the Controller replied. Huxleys society has a saying that goes along with Soma, Stability is practically assureda gramme is better than a damn (Huxley 54-55). “Isn't there something in living dangerously?' ![]()
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