• Brave New World John/The Savage - "But I don't want comfort.I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger,I have freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
• “Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that strange night, she kept her own secret, never whispering a word to memory, and baffling imagination by an indissoluble silence” – Villette by Charlotte Bronte
• “...look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far – it will never be far” – Sara Teasdale Night
• And in this moment we are infinite
• Orwell – Animal Farm - And above all, no animal must ever tyrannize over his kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.
• “Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart...when it arises in us, we’ve simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are” – The Joy of Living

HARRY POTTER

• There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up tp our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
• The ones who love us never really leave us.
• We are only as strong as we are united, and as weak as we are divided.
• Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light.
• It’s our choices that show us what we truly are, for more than our abilities.

DEAD POET’S SOCIETY

• No matter what anybody tells you, works and ideas can change the world
• ...but poetry, beauty, romance, love – these are what we stay alive for
• I stand up here to remind myself that I must constantly look at things in a new way...don’t just consider what the author thinks, consider what you thing

A WRINKLE IN TIME

• “It’s a frightening as well as an exciting thing to discover that matter and energy are the same thing, that size is an illusion, and that time is a material substance” – pg. 157
• “We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal” – pg. 175

ANGELHEADED HIPSTER

• We suddenly realised that actually ART did influence people, that it had consequences and could clarify consciousness, could bring one to other modes of awareness. Realizing that opened up a whole world of possibility. - Ginsberg
• We were taking our lives into our own hands
• Here was a man (Burroughs) who had studies literature and anthropology at Harvard, psychology at Columbia and medicine in Vienna, and who had opted to work as a bartender in the village in order to be closer to the rough edges of city life.
• Both men (Burroughs and Kerouac) felt that those forced to live outside the law (e.g. petty criminals, hookers and junkies) were purer than those who conformed because they had resisted the demands of a corrupt society...open to revelations that others weren’t.
• The proper function of man is to live, not exist.
• Jack wanted his writing to embody the rush of energy rather than to describe it in the detached voice of an observer.

SOPHIE’S WORLD

• “As a rule, not knowing is a step to new knowledge” – pg 203 Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
• “But only when we know ourselves that we are acting out of respect for moral law are we acting FREELY” - Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
• “...it is me, or something in me, which tells me not to be mean to others. So when you choose not to be mean – even if it is against your own interests – you are acting freely” - Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
• “...One can become a slave to all kinds of things. One can even become a slave to one’s own egoism. Independence and freedom are exactly what are require to rise above one’s desires and vices” - Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
• Sartre – “But it is we ourselves who must CREATE this meaning in our own lives. To EXIST is to create your own life” - Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
• “Our own lives influence the way we perceive things in the room. If something is of no interest to me, I don’t see it..”
• “Men behave as if they are the subjects, treating women like their objects, thus depriving them of the responsibility for their own life” – 382
• “It’s certainly surprising to see what people put up with without protesting”- 383
• “All true philosophers should keep their eyes open. Even if we have never seen a white crow, we should never stop looking for it.”

V FOR VENDETTA 2006

• Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
• Need more than a building, need hope.
• Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover them up
• A man after my own heart
• What was done to me created me. The basic principle of the universe, that every action will create an equal, and an opposing reaction.

THE END OF AMERICA

• “Fear is the most devastating of all threats we can have in democracy. The language of fear will cause ordinary decent people to do things that are not in their character.”
• “The ‘justification’ for killing 100,000s of people was based on a lie obtained from torture.”
• “In a closed society, your innocence doesn’t protect you.”
• “When the state starts to protect its own murders, a very dangerous corner is turned.”