Alan Moore

“It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise and it's gone.”

“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic.”

“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”

“Ideas are bulletproof.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

“The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”

“Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness.”

“A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”

“There is no coincidence, only the illusion of coincidence.”

“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.”

“It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.”

“We are all our own prisons. We are all our own warders.”

“Authority, when challenged, inevitably reveals its true nature.”

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and seek security in the fiction of a distant past.”

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

“Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”

“Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.”