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 want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“What need have we of repose when our minds and bodes come to delight in activity? of consolation, when we have soma? of something immovable, when we have social order?”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World