"To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -- and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are."

Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, as quoted in the film Joy Division

"The only thing necessary for the power of evil is for good [people] to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

"Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real."

Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins), in the film Red Dragon