Chris Wright

“Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears - that’s what soma is.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Technically, it would be perfectly simple to reduce all lower-caste working hours to three or four a day. But would they be any happier for that? No, they wouldn’t. The experiment was tried, more than a century and a half ago. The whole of Ireland was put on to the four-hour day. What was the result? Unrest and a large increase in the consumption of soma; that was all. Those three and a half hours of extra leisure were so far from being a source of happiness, that people felt constrained to to take a holiday from them… For the sake of the laborers; it would be sheer cruelty to affect them with excessive leisure.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“But I don’t what comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.’ ‘In fact,’ said Mustapha Mond, ‘you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.’ ‘All right, then,’ said the Savage defiantly, ‘I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein