All Quotes

"The more of us you kill, the more secessionism lives on in the hearts of the people."

"Ever wonder why big car corporations pay two percent tax and the guys on the assembly line pay forty?"

"Corporations are so big, you don't even know who you're working for. That's terror. Terror built into the system."

"Do you ever ask what it's all for? The surveillance, the police, the shoot-on-sight laws? Is that freedom?"

"Silhouette is not a terrorist group. Our attacks are symbolic and intended to influence the public."

"It's just so fitting that the American Government would destroy the gift of freedom we gave your country 200 years ago and then try to blame it on us."

"When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings."

"Culture by definition a shared territory of meaning, inspires conflicts far more destructive than any other dispute over territory on the Earth's surface."

"The rhetoric in Washington has done more to defeat liberty than all the armies and police forces in the world."

"This war all around us is being fought over the very meanings of words."

"In order to get our own message before the public, we too have been violent. We have even killed people. But it is the message -- the communication event -- that we target, not a few human beings, or a building, or an historical landmark."

"A corpse: yes. You feel something. I must know what you are feeling."

"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."

"We're in the business of saving lives, Matthew. That is a responsibility that I think we have to take pretty seriously. And I believe that taking a Marine who's not quite up to the job and shipping him off to some other assignment puts lives in danger. [Markinson rises to leave] Sit down, Matthew. We go back a while. We went to the Academy together, we were commissioned together, we did our tours in Vietnam together. But I've been promoted up the chain with greater speed and success than you have. Now, if that's a source of tension or embarrassment for you, I don't give a shit. We're in the business of saving lives, Lt. Col. Markinson. Don't ever question my orders in front of another officer."

"In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth."

"Demi Moore - Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway"

"Jack Nicholson - Colonel Nathan R.Jessup"

"Kevin Bacon - Captain Jack Ross"

"Kiefer Sutherland - Lieutenant Jonathan Kendrick"

"J.T. Walsh - Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Markinson"

"Kevin Pollak - Lieutenant Junior Grade Sam Weinberg"

"James Marshall - Private First Class Louden Downey"

"Matt Craven - Lieutenant Dave Spradling"

"Wolfgang Bodison - Lance Corporal Harold W.Dawson"

"J.A. Preston - Judge Julius Alexander Randolph"

"Noah Wyle - Corporal Jeffrey Barnes"

"Cuba Gooding Jr. - Corporal Carl Hammaker"

"John M. Jackson - Captain West"

"Xander Berkeley - Captain Whitaker"

"Joshua Malina - Tom"

"Christopher Guest - Dr.Stone"

"Aaron Sorkin - Lawyer bragging in tavern"

"Deus Ex game designer [In regard to the lack of the World Trade Center towers in the background skyline of the Liberty Island map] We just said that the towers had been destroyed too. And this was way before 9-11. Years."

"Ivan [Russian sailor at the Lucky Money Club]: I spill my drink!"

"Lucius DeBeers: We should have poisoned Page the first time he forged laboratory data. We don't equivocate about outsiders, do we? Mr. Kennedy mentions a "plot" during a speech at Columbia University, he's out, no discussion, no matter that we got him elected. But a student of ours, an initiate -- oh, heavens, no!"

"Real conspiracies. Severe consequences. Intense action role-playing."

"Trust no one. Question everything.."

"Jay Anthony Franke - J.C. Denton, Paul Denton, Daedalus"

"Cliff Stephens - Bob Page, Ford Schick"

"Tom Hall - Walton Simons, Howard Strong, Morpheus"

"Peter Marquardt - Helios, Icarus"

"John William Galt - Joseph Manderley, Jock, Tracer Tong, Lucius DeBeers"

"Jeff Groteboer - Gunther Hermann"

"Carolyn McCormick - Anna Navarre, Janice Reed, Maggie Chow"

"Sean Hennigan - Jaime Reyes, Juan Lebedev, Morgan Everett, Sam Carter"

"Richard Zangrande Gaubert - Alex Jacobson"