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25 quotes
British comic book author (born 1953)
“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
"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."
on Philosophy
"You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it."
on Identity
"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
on Art
"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
"Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done..."
on Life
"I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary."
on Imagination
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?"
"The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular."
on Wisdom
"We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors."
"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."
on Knowledge
"If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god."
"Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade."
"Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining."
on Freedom
"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell."
"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
on Language
"All we ever see of stars are their old photographs."
on Time
"There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof."
"Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?"
on Happiness
"Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."
"Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all"
