The Head Nurse … pressed down a little lever.
There was a violent explosion. Shriller and ever shriller, a siren shrieked. Alarm bells maddeningly sounded.
The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror.
“And now,” the Director shouted (for the noise was deafening), “now we proceed to rub in the lesson with a mild electric shock.”
He waved his hand again, and the Head Nurse pressed a second lever. The screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone. There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now gave utterance. Their little bodies twitched and stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to the tug of unseen wires. - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
“They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.” - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides—made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!” The Director almost shouted in his triumph. “Suggestions from the State.” - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley



You’ve always been told what to think, ever since you were a child. First by your parents, then by your teachers, none of them know anything. They’re all liars. You can believe me though. Yes friends why not believe me. I’ll tell you the truth. Sink into the blackness of the horrible truth. I’ll lead you there. I’ll guide you there. I’ll take you there my friends. I understand you. I want to help you. Trust me. Put your faith in me. Obey me. I am the only one that can save you. - The Doctor
Little child, the ghost will come and eat you
No one else can save you. Not your Preacher, not your Teacher, not Mommy and Daddy, not your role model. They will all betray you. You’re alone. Alone in your sickness. Alone in the suffering you so richly deserve. Only through your obedience, your devotion to your Doctor, will you find salvation, a refuge from the madness you will never understand! - The Doctor