Chapter Six Flashcards
“No more than half a dozen people in the whole Centre had ever been inside a Savage Reservation”
“Some men are almost rhinoceroses; they don’t respond properly to conditioning”
“That mania […] for doing things in private”
“‘I’d rather be myself […] Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.’”
“what would it be like if i could, if i were free - not enslaved by my conditioning”
“I thought we’d be […] more together here - with nothing but the sea and moon”
“‘Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today’”
“‘When the individual feels, the community reels’”
“that’s why we went to bed together yesterday - like infants - instead of being adults and waiting”
“Bernard felt extremely uncomfortable. A man so conventional, so scrupulously correct as the Director - and to commit so gross a solecism”
“Alphas are so conditioned that they do not have to be infantile in their emotional behaviour. But that is all the more reason for their making a special effort to conform. It is their duty to be infantile”
“elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance”
“left nothing to be desired”
“surrounded by a high-tension wire fence”
“no communication whatever with the civilised world”
“they’re perfectly tame”
