Alan Moore, V For Vendetta Quotes
There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all
There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.