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“There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Doctor Manhattan, in Watchmen #9 (referring to Doctor Manhattans's theory of time)

“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”

Alan Moore

&quot;BOG VENUS VERSUS NAZI COCK-RING: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography&quot; in Arthur magazine, Vol. 1, No. 25 (November 2006) http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=1685 <br class="br">Source: 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom <br class="br">Context: Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Not that I’m trying to load my argument, of course.

“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream? It came true. You're lookin' at it.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.”

Alan Moore

Source: Absolute Watchmen

“I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“Everybody has their story to tell.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta