"What Takashima is doing, if you ask me, is making mindless robots. They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do. You never have to starve."
— 1Q84
"..and she felt only revulsion for any kind of religious fundamentalist. The very thought of such people’s intorelant worldview, their inflated sense of their own superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage."
— 1Q84
