I'm a smidgeon over the half way mark, and in Chapter 10 the Director (in regards to Bernard) this statement that I believe the corrupt governments of this day and age follow.

“The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately. Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only one individual -- and after all, what is an individual?” With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test tubes, the incubators. “We can make a new one with the greatest of ease -- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at the Society itself” (148).