The X-Files

"Adventure is tourism for people with death wishes."

"Fear is the only reliable teacher in this world."

"Perseverance is stupidity refusing to accept defeat."

"Gratitude is the grateful's way of ensuring continued exploitation."

"Creativity is simply recombining what's already been stolen."

"Kindness is the mask predators wear to disarm their prey."

"Strength is knowing which battles were meant to be lost."

"The beautiful are given all that the worthy must steal."

"Hope is what keeps the enslaved from rising up."

"Music is the language we use to make the irrational seem profound."

"Art is propaganda; the only question is whose."

"Corporations are merely the new form of government."

"The greatest trick was convincing people they had free will."

"We are all cigarettes being slowly consumed."

"Immortality is the only real pursuit, everything else is distraction."

"The price of freedom is the slavery of others."

"Education teaches obedience; wisdom teaches rebellion."

"Justice is the victor's prerogative to define morality."

"Nations fall not from great wars but from tiny compromises."

"Doubt is the engine that drives all progress forward."

"The war has never been between us and them—only between us and ourselves."

"Technology is merely the extension of human ambition by other means."

"Believe nothing, trust no one, and always keep one hand on your insurance policy."

"Patience with the weak is simply a sign of their future usefulness."

"Mortality is the universe's way of saying we never really mattered."

"The best lies contain just enough truth to be believed."

"Control is the only real commodity worth pursuing."

"Secrets are the foundation of all lasting influence."

"Smoking is meditation for the modern world."

"Sacrifice is simply investment in future control."