Memorable Quotes from Sean Pertwee
10 quotesThe Cost of Emotional Suppression in Libria
Father
Libria, I congratulate you. At last peace reigns in the heart of man. At last war is but a word whose meaning fades from our understanding. At last, we are whole. Librians, there is a disease in the heart of man. Its symptom is hate. Its symptom is anger. Its symptom is rage. Its symptom is war. The disease is human emotion. But Libria, I congratulate you, for there is a cure for this disease. At the cost of the dizzying highs of human emotion, we have suppressed its abysmal lows. And you, as a society, have embraced this cure: Prozium. Now we are at peace with ourselves and human kind is one. War is gone. Hate, a memory. We are our own conscience now, and it is this conscience that guides us to rate EC-10, for emotional content, all those things that might tempt us to feel, again, and destroy them. Librians, you have won. Against all odds, and your own natures. You, have, survived.
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The Paradox of Prozium's Comfort
Father
Prozium - The great nepenthe. Opiate of our masses. Glue of our great society. Salve and salvation, it has delivered us from pathos, from sorrow, the deepest chasms of melancholy and hate. With it, we anesthetize grief, annihilate jealousy, obliterate rage. Those sister impulses towards joy, love, and elation are anesthetized in stride, we accept as fair sacrifice. For we embrace Prozium in its unifying fullness and all that it has done to make us great.
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Waiting for Rebirth on Thursday
Bradley Cortese
He's waiting in purgatory for the day of his rebirth... which happens to be this Thursday!
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The Paradox of War and Peace
Father
...a single inescapable fact—that mankind united with infinitely greater purpose in pursuit of war...than he ever did in pursuit of peace.
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Confrontation Over Sergeant's Loyalty
Slade
I don't see how you cannot remember how you got here Sergeant. You're not a deserter, are you Sergeant?
Sgt. Todd
No, sir.
Slade
Then how come you're not with your unit?
Townsman
Oh come on Slade, will you let the man eat?
Slade
It's not an unreasonable question. How bout it Sergeant?
Sgt. Todd
I was replaced.
Mace
Replaced...
Sgt. Todd
By a better soldier, sir.
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The Nature of Humanity and Conformity
Father
...intrinsically, humans, as creatures of the Earth were drawn inherently always back to one thing—war. And thus we seek to correct not the symptom but the disease itself. We have sought to shrug off individuality, replacing it with conformity. Replacing it... with sameness... with unity, allowing each man, woman, and child in this great society to lead identical lives.
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Respectable Mummy and the Mothercurse Dilemma
Bradley Cortese
What sort of respectable mummy snuffs it without leaving a mothercurse on her tomb?
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Awakening to Collective Destiny in Libria
Father
Libria... Awake. Awaken to triumph again in the face of yet another day,another step in our unified march into the unwavering purpose...move ahead together into the certainty of our collective destiny.
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The Rise of the Grammaton Cleric
Father
In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man - his ability to feel.
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Unexpected Compliment in a Casual Encounter
Emily
Who are you?
George
My name's George.
Emily
George... you have a ripping set of unmentionables!
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