John the Savage

Character in Brave New World From: Brave New World

Outsider raised on Shakespeare; questions and critiques World State values

163 quotes

"Self-denial is the road to virtue."
"A bottle of mine own vintage."
Creativity
"The Savage stood for a moment looking at them, his face flushed, his eyes blazing with anger and something else—a passion the Civilized could not understand"
Freedom
"I do not like this organization"
"The love that consists in this revelation of two souls to each other is unknown here"
Love
"Mother, I don't want you. I don't want a mother."
Relationships
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin."
Freedom
"I want to know what passion is like."
Adventure
"Happy people have no need of God."
Faith
"The proper study of mankind is books."
Literature
"The love of nature keeps out vice."
Nature
"The island of truth lies somewhere beyond soma."
Truth
"I don't want comfort. I want God"
Faith
"Brave New World"
Literature
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
Freedom
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness."
Freedom
"I'm glad I'm not you."
Philosophy
"Beauty, passion, and danger—all suppressed."
Freedom
"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
Courage
"Words like liberty and passion mean nothing here."
Freedom
"I don't want to be safe; I want meaning."
Wisdom
"Beauty requires ugliness for comparison."
Beauty
"Violence is the only remaining authentic experience."
Adventure
"I want freedom to be unhappy"
Freedom
"I am thinking of something rather difficult to put into words"
Truth
"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy"
Freedom
"Talking about his mother"
Relationships
"Pandora was the first bitch"
"I had a dream about civilization"
Dreams
"I can't help it"