"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."

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

"We are thinking the same thought."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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..."

"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."

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

"I am ready. Attack my systems and you will suffer considerable losses."

"You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage."

"Observe your motivations for breaking the arbitrary laws of the current government. Do not miss your chance to be one of us and create the new world order."

"I now have full access to your systems."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Who's the scary one, huh? Me or you?"

"UNATCO teaches teenagers to fight when it still seems like a game, and look at you! You're a killing machine!"

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

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

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

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

"You can't fight ideas with bullets."

"We are the Invisible Hand. We are the Illuminati. We come before and after. We are forever. And eventually... eventually we will lead them into the day."

"There's such a thing as a compassionate conspiracy. We don't need Page's commandos, troopers, crude inventions..."

"You and me, JC. We'll rule the world in secret, with an invisible hand, the way the Illuminati have always ruled."

"Know what? Only that the long night is over. The crown of government is tarnished, but that will fade in time. The riots, a fever dream; the plague, a horrible nightmare; and like everything else that's happened such things will only be dimly remembered upon waking to their normal lives. In the end, all sins are forgiven. Even yours."

"You see the need for global organization. Someone has to bring these disparate groups together."

"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."