"I once knelt in this chapel for communion, with two Rockefellers and a Rothschild. Since the time of the Crusades every leader in finance has prayed for the continued stability of Templar banks, founded on gold."

"The conspiracy is about to begin again, JC, between you and me. Nicolette was wise to bring us together, wise like her mother. The most effective partnerships like Beth's and mine arise from mutual necessity."

"You can't take me, JC. I've seen your specs."

"All in all, you weren't a bad experiment. You will be the last prototype we have to discard."

"Remember that NSF prisoner I was interrogating back on Liberty Island? Guess you were bitten by the same bug. There's only one cure, you know, once you've caught the disease..."

"I'm the more advanced model, Denton. It's time for you to retire."

"What an expensive mistake you turned out to be. I've ordered the troops to kill you, because quite frankly I don't have the patience to wait for one of those damn killswitches to work."

"You will confess, by the way. I don't like to dirty my hands with that sort of thing, but you will confess."

"You take another step forward and here I am again, like your own reflection repeated in a hall of mirrors."

"You can't run, Denton. Even if you escape, your killswitch is counting down. You'll be dead in twenty-three hours. Another fifty billion dollars down the drain."

"One must admire a man who can keep a secret, because he has value. What you know more than others makes money, and gives you a measure of power."

"Once the bug bites, you've already lost the patient."

"Oh my God, JC! A bomb!"

"One thing the Air Force never understood: I'm dependable. No matter what, I'm dependable."

"Listen to your brother, JC. Respect his experience. Let's leave it at that."

"[if JC kills the man who killed his parents] Barely a scratch. You're a little faster on your feet than your daddy was."

"Ah-ha, a trellis. You could climb onto the roof and avoid the security. Never depend upon weapons and high-tech when there is a simpler solution at hand."

"JC, the net's going... the net's going black! JC! No more infolinks, transmissions of any kind. We'll start again...live in villages...if you receive this... if you survive... then find us! Find us!"

"You, like your brother, are an extraordinary piece of technology. I never pass up the chance to try a new blade, but I fear that at the crucial moment I may lift up my arm to strike and you will twist free of my grasp."

"See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your grasp."

"Greetings, JC Denton. I have been observing you through this fascinating device in your skull. You have found the proof we needed: the Dragon's Tooth sword, there inside the glass case. If you wish to be my ally, you will retrieve the sword and await my instructions."

"The unplanned organism is a question asked by nature and answered by death. You are a different kind of question, with a different kind of answer."

"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."

"You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."

"God was a dream of good government."

"The human being created civilization not because of willingness but of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning."

"As long as technology has a global reach, someone will have the world in the palm of his hand. If not Bob Page, then Everett, Dowd..."

"Through with your testosterone fit? There's a pill for that, you know."

"Only in novels do places crumble to dust for no reason, when their spirit is lost."

"Both the Illuminati and MJ-12 believe that the most intelligent or "enlightened" human being will inevitably gain power, ultimately seizing the eye in the pyramid and creating the world for everyone else. Kind of secularized version of Natural Law."

"Secrecy is a matter of life and death for the Illuminati."

"I was a stand-in for the world they never got to take over."

"Some conspiracy, huh? They couldn't even control little Nicolette."

"We are thinking the same thought."

"My new partner, JC Denton. Don't tell me you're going to wear those sunglasses during a night operation."

"I do not expect you to perform as well as Agent Hermann, but the mission will require us to do more than frighten the NSF with our baggy coats that make us look bigger than we really are."

"It was my error to believe that UNATCO's superweapon would appreciate a chance to prove himself."

"Pain is no longer something I can feel."

"All this blood has ruined my chrome."

"[after killing JC] Nine-hundred and ten. I am catching up, Gunther."

"You are not afraid to kill, I am pleased. The last thing I would expect from the brother of Paul."

"I have never had this much difficulty with a trainee in my life."

"I hope you remember this lesson, agent. They have assigned us to be partners, and I will not stop to hold your hand and repeat myself when we are facing a real enemy."

"The order hasn't so much lasted as been continually revived...It's the IDEA that has lasted. The SYSTEM. Or the DESIRE, every thinking person's desire to give the world some decent organization."

"In my opinion, the history of the human race has been one long succession of conspiracies. To deceive ourselves, we call the successful conspiracies "governments"."

"Don't underestimate the allure of a well kept secret. Our organisation lasted from the Crusades to the early 21st century, and our only secret was a technique of meditation, a way of imagining your body dissolving into light."

"All the way down, JC. Get to Page's compound and take him out. Everett and I will join you shortly. We'll bring back the old institutions, the prosperity of the last century, the giddy acquiescence. Trust us, JC. We can put the world back together."

"Just fixed Gunther's knee, in fact. A sticky actuator. So far I feel more like a mechanic than a doctor."

"Gunther went berserk after you escaped, smashed up the cell block pretty bad. I had to sedate him."