Deus Ex

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

"God was a dream of good government."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"At the sound of your voice, 400 milliamps will discharge into Gunther's midbrain. Poof!"

"If there's a conspiracy, it's at VersaLife; they're the ones making money off the plague."

"Well, since that makes you my new boss, take a long look at Manderley's dead body. Consider that my resignation; I don't have time to write a letter."

"When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror."

"You mechs may have copper wiring to reroute your fear of pain, but I've got nerves of steel."

"I never had time to take the Oath of Service to the Coalition. How about this one? I swear not to rest until UNATCO is free of you and the other crooked bureaucrats who have perverted its mission."

"Call me nostalgic, but the nightlife seems to have lost its old charm."

"Some gang-banger, maybe you should think about going back to school."

"Bravery is not a function of firepower."

"Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems."

"Every war is the result of a difference of opinion. Maybe the biggest questions can only be answered by the greatest of conflicts."

"What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?"

"You've got ten seconds to beat it before I add you to the list of NSF casualties."

"What a shame. [said after NPC Gilbert Renton dies. JC says this even if he caused Renton's death]"

"A forgotten virtue like honesty is worth at least twenty credits."

"I'm not big into books."

"I'm not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the greatest democracy the world has ever known."