Brave New World ch. 2-3

 

 
"The case of Little Reuben occurred only twenty-three years after Our Ford's first T-Model was put on the market." (Here the Director made a sign of the T on his stomach and all the students reverently followed suit.)

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about. 


Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. 

Chapter 3
by 7 years old, they still haven't been able to train out the natural tendencies
in the past there were to be no sexual thoughts until at least 20 years of age.
 This is the Controller; this is his fordship, Mustapha Mond.
Shows how influential Mustapha is:
 He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae. Whisk. Whisk–and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus? Whisk–and those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome, Jerusalem and the Middle Kingdom–all were gone. Whisk–the place where Italy had been was empty. Whisk, the cathedrals; whisk, whisk, King Lear and the Thoughts of Pascal. Whisk, Passion; whisk, Requiem; whisk, Symphony; whisk …

Having a family is an absolutely appalling idea

 The world was full of fathers–was therefore full of misery; full of mothers–therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts–full of madness and suicide. 

 every one belongs to every one else

if you let people feel all at once, then you are over it, but when you have to do things in secret or moderately, things come out sideways

Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment.
Sane men must lead society 

 Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well-being.

 We always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better …" CONSUME

Holy Ford the end of the chapter spirals into the this crazy conglomeration of dialogue 
  
Characters remain constant throughout a whole lifetime.

 "Suffer little children" Jesus said this and Mustapha quoted it, he is the story's Jesus.