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101 " Lenina uykuda öğretilmiş parlak bilgeliğini . . . "
― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World
102 " Somos para los dioses como moscas en manos de chiquillos caprichosos; nos matan como en un juego. "
103 " Todos nosotros —prosiguió el Interventor, meditabundo— vivimos en el interior de un frasco. Mas para los Alfas, los frascos, relativamente hablando, son enormes. Nosotros sufriríamos horriblemente si fuésemos confinados en un espacio más estrecho. No se puede verter sucedáneo de champaña de las clases altas en los frascos de las castas bajas. "
104 " —La población óptima es la que se parece a los icebergs: ocho novenas partes por debajo de la línea de flotación, y una novena parte por encima. —¿Y son felices los que se encuentran por debajo de la línea de flotación? —Más felices que los que se encuentran por encima de ella. "
105 " Cuanto mayores son los talentos de un hombre más grande es su poder de corromper a los demás. "
106 " Y éste es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno TIENE que hacer. "
107 " No cabe civilización alguna sin estabilidad social. Y no hay estabilidad social sin estabilidad individual. "
108 " Una de las principales funciones de nuestros amigos estriba en sufrir (en formas más suaves y simbólicas) los castigos que querríamos infligir, y no podemos, a nuestros enemigos. "
109 " El mejor de los descansos es el sueño; y tú a menudo lo buscas; sin embargo, temes torpemente la muerte, que es la misma cosa. "
110 " I am I, and I wish I weren't. "
111 " I like being myself. Myself and nasty. "
112 " ...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. "
113 " Eternity was in our lips and eyes. "
114 " I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. "
115 " I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. "
116 " A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. "
117 " The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to. "
118 " The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy." ..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here. "
119 " A love of nature keeps no factories busy. "
120 " It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. "