Important Quotations and Literary Devices

In the beginning of this book, the majority is about the futuristic world and how the world works. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explains to students about the whole process of decanting babies and producing multiple twins to create a truth out of their society's motto.

One of the important quotes from this book is the society's motto itself, "Community, Identity, Stability". I believe this is an important quote because it creates the mood of how dull and boring this society truly is. They want stability instead of creativity, they crave for compliance and human interaction at all times instead of being alone, and they need to be ranked in order to be as a community and stable at the same time. They are a dirt-free, disease-free, and always good-feeling society. They refuse to be alone. They refuse to be dirty or look unkept. They even refuse to feel a bad emotion.
Actually, they do not 'choose'. They are conditioned to be like this.

This quote is also ironic at the same time because how can one have an identity when you are conditioned to feel, to think, and to be as what you are told to be, think, and feel? The word 'identity' is almost laughable in their motto. When one is ranked, they are not an identity. They are a machine. A machine built and created to serve mainly one purpose in life. Is that truly what is an identity? Not in our society, but perhaps that is what the word 'identity' means to theirs.

Another important quote I found was when the Director is discussing conditioning the decanted babies to thrive on heat, "..that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destinty" (I, page 12), which provides the reader into just how dark and fake this society is.
This quote basically states that the secret to happiness is conditioning people to like what they're being conditioned to do. After all, it makes sense. If you're conditioned to love something, and you love what you do, then you'll be happy.
However, this is a false sense of happiness. In my eyes it is like getting a beautiful wrapped box, with no present inside. Sure the wrapping and outside may be pretty and wonderful, but inside it is empty. Happiness should radiate from the inside to the outside in a natural way. Not in this conditioned way.
Then again, perhaps what they feel is 'true' happiness, as they do not know anything else.

This future society is a hard concept to understand for me. I always think, "how is that happiness", or, "how can one live like that?" but I always remind myself that it is how they live. How they've always lived. They do not know that it could be so very different - as basically the whole world lives like this, disregarding the Savage Reservations of course.

I found these quotes to be very important as I believe they will have a larger impact further on into the book and also bring a sense of what this book is about, even if they are only in the first chapter.