History Quotes / EpiphanicPrison

->As his mother was free. And as his son, now, in his [[BedlamHouse white cell]] [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore which no longer frightens him]], is free.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''

->'''One:''' But once these two arrive at their seat, it is up to them to sort things out.

->'''One:''' But once these two arrive at their seat, it is up to them to sort things out

->'''One:''' But once these two arrive at their seat, it is up to them to sort things out//
'''Amelia:''' And if they don't?//
'''One:''' Then they die here.

-->-- ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''

->Matthew was a refugee. [[LondonGangster Matthew]] came into a world which was immediately broken. He was without his mother from almost before he could say her name, and when she returned she did so a strange, half-hearted way, and she - like him - knew that [[CrapsackWorld everything about the world he inhabited was wrong at the most basic level]]. Fundamentally, Matthew could not believe the pleasant fictions which make life within the law palatable to others. He saw the world in a constant state of war. [[TheFettered His father]] was losing money and losing his shop, which was the external manifestation of his self, because he did exactly what society said he should and society was a cheat. Daniel spent much of his life creating more and more wonderful things, a cargo cultist desperately seeking to achieve something so beautiful that his goddess could not resist. Matthew new better. He watched, and learned, and saw that she came only in response to things most horribly broken.

'''Rose''': So all the people on Earth, they're like...slaves?\\

-> The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape.

-> Escape will make me God.

-> [[color:red:I]] was the most unfortunate.
-> I knew that there was no exit out of this maze.
-> Then, [[color:red:he]] was the next most unfortunate.
-> He did not know that there was no exit out of this maze.
-> But [[color:red:all]] the rest weren't so unfortunate.
-> They didn't know that they were in the maze in the first place.

->'''The Editor''': Create a climate of fear and it's easy to keep the borders closed. It's just a matter of emphasis - the right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilise an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote.
->'''Rose''': So all the people on Earth, they're like...slaves?
->'''The Editor''': Well now, there's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?
->'''The Doctor''': [[BluntYes Yes.]]
->'''The Editor''': Oh, I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm gonna get, "Yes"?
->'''The Doctor''': Yes.

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-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''The Long Game''

-->-- '''Voltaire'''

-->-- '''Frederica Bernkastel''', ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''

-->-- ''SeriesDoctorWho'', ''The Long Game''

->'''The Editor''': Oh, I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm gonna get, "Yes"?
->'''The Doctor''': Yes.
-->-- ''The Long Game''

-->-- '''Morpheus''', ''TheMatrix''

-->-- '''Frederica Bernkastel''', ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''

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-> And escape will make me God.

-->-- '''Durandal''', ''{{Marathon}}''