Цитаты из книги «О дивный новый мир / Brave New World»

But industrial civilization is only possible when there’s no self-denial. Self-indulgence keeps the wheels turning

postulated a mutation to account for it [

the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour .

Hasn’t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?

The act of criticizing made him feel important

Adults intellectually and during working hours,” he went on. “Infants where feeling and desire are concerned. It might be possible to be an adult all the time.”

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. That’s

Did you ever feel,” he asked, “as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using?”

So essential when there was under-production; but in an age of machines—positively a crime against society.”

racks upon racks of numbered test-tubes.