Cigarette Smoking Man Quotes

You see a man lying here, a seemingly weak man, but I’m the most powerful man in the world.

You want the truth, Agent Mulder? You’ve come to the right place.

That’s the world we live in, Monica. Every day a new disaster, when the one thing no one is prepared for will wipe the slate clean. We refuse to imagine our impending extinction, the acceleration of the cataclysms. We’ve thrown science out the window in favor of scandal and opinion and cant and all manner of ridiculous untruths. Civilization a joke, and my plan merely the punch line.

I’ve controlled you since before you knew I existed.

We have a small problem. They’ve reopened the X-Files.

To doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination. It is a failure to recognize the limits of our own stupidity, the nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools.

The world will go on. Just in my image instead of God’s.

Regret is an inevitable consequence of life.[to Bill]

Nothing vanishes without a trace.

In 1988 there was an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in Sacramento California. The truth would have caused panic. Panic would have cost lives. We control the disease by controlling the information.[Cigarette Smoking Man]You can’t protect the public by lying to them.[Fox Mulder]It’s done every day.[Cigarette Smoking Man]

I just changed the timetable. Everyone still dies in the end.

I didn’t set out to destroy the world, Mulder. People did.