“Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.”
– Star Wars
“Great warrior? Wars not make one great.”
– The Empire Strikes Back
“What is in there?”
“Only what you take with you… Your weapons – you will not need them.”
– The Empire Strikes Back
“Will I still be myself?”
“Your desire to remain what you are is what ultimately limits you.”
– Ghost in the Shell
“Rudimentary creatures of flesh and bone. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. There is a realm of existance so far beyond your own you can not even imagine it.”
– Mass Effect
“You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it.”
– Mass Effect
“He said it was dead. We trusted him. He was right. But even a dead god can dream. A god – a real god – is a verb. Not some old man with magic powers. It’s a force. It warps reality just by being there. It doesn’t have to want to. It doesn’t have to think about it. It just does.”
– Mass Effect 2
“I’m going to show you how to kill a god. A god of life and death. The trick is not to fear him.”
– Princess Mononoke
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
– The Addams Family
“You seek meaning? Then listen to the music, not the song.”
– Babylon 5
“You can not own a human being. Sooner or later, somebody is going to push back.”
– Fury Road
I know, shamelessly pretentious. I’ll never come up with anything like that during play. But it’s still good to have an ideal to strive for.