`Author:` `Availability:` > [!info] > ## Key Takeaways ## Summary ## Quotes - [[Aldous Huxley]] (Brave New World, 1932): 1. “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive… controls a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” • Huxley foresaw a world where people are controlled not by force but by their attachment to comfort and distractions. 2. “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.” • A character in Brave New World rejects the shallow pleasures and comforts offered by society in favour of genuine human experience. ## Notes `Concepts:` `Knowledge Base:` [[Books index]]