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You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, what do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn’t that right? I want to be happy, people say. Well aren’t they? Don’t we keep them moving, don’t we give them fun? That’s all we live for, isn’t it? For pleasure, for tiltillation? And you mus admit our culture provides plenty of these.”
says Captain Beaty to Montag, p. 59
“She didn’t want to know how a thing was done but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it.”
says Captain Beaty to Montag, p. 60
