How we cite our quotes: (Record.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"True, only about two tenths of the population of the globe did not die out. But how beautifully shining the face of the earth became when it was cleared of its impurities!" (5.3)
Look closely at the language here. It associates repression with words like "beautifully" and dismisses the death of billions as worthy sacrifices to that beauty. That's seriously messed up.
Quote #5
So it's natural that having subjugated Hunger (algebraically = to the sum of material goods), the One State began an offensive against the other master of the world—against Love. Finally, even this natural force was also conquered, i.e., organized and mathematicized, and around three hundred years ago, our historical Lex Sexualis was proclaimed: "Each cipher has the right to any other cipher as sexual product." (5.5)
The book posits Love as the last bastion against power. Repressing it—notably by reducing sex to a casual act you make appointments for—means repressing all traces of a chaotic world.
Quote #6
A faint crack like a shiver, in the tubes of the Machine… The prone body, covered with a light phosphorescent smoke; then, suddenly, under the eyes of all, it began to melt—to melt, to dissolve with terrible speed." (9.18)
More evidence of the State's power, and more specifically, what the State is. It's a machine—powerful and merciless—and human beings literally turn into smoke within it.