People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free.
Only the things that matter.[Evey Hammond: Is everything a joke to you, Gordon?]
No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man, and what he meant to me.[last lines]
Is that what you really think, or is that what they’d want you to think?[Evey Hammond: I must have been out of my mind.]
If you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.
I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small, and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
I have not come for what you hoped to do. I’ve come for what you did.[to Delia Surridge]
He was Edmond Dantes, and he was my father and my mother, my brother, my friend. He was you and me. He was all of us.[Eric Finch: Who was he?]
Fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words. They are perspectives.
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof.[to Mr. Creedy]