People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think - Aldous Huxley

But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can’t have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

But as I make the laws here, I can also break them. With impunity. . . Which I'm afraid you CAN'T do.