V for Vendetta Quotes
Freedom! Forever!
Remember, remember, the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
But what of the man?
I know his name was Guy Fawkes, and I know in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
But who was he really? What was he like?
We are told to remember the idea and not the man because a man can fail.
He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten.
But 400 years later an idea can still change the world.
I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas.
I’ve seen people kill in the name of them and die defending them.
But you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it or hold it.
Ideas do not bleed.
They do not feel pain.
They do not love.
And it is not an idea that I miss.
It is a man.
A man that made me remember the 5th of November.
A man that I will never forget.
~Evey
The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain,
for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose.
So let me simply add that its’ my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
~V
Moments such as these are matters of faith.
To fail is to invite doubt into everything we believe, everything we have fought for.
Doubt will plunge this country back into chaos, and I will not let that happen.
~Chancellor Adam Sutler
Evey: You really think blowing up Parliament’s going to make this country a better place?
V: There’s no certainty, only opportunity.
Evey: You can be pretty certain that if anyone does show up,
Creedy’ll black-bag every one of them.
V: People should not be afraid of their governments.
Governments should be afraid of their people.
Evey: And you’ll make that happen by blowing up a building?
V: The building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it.
Symbols are given power by people.
Alone, a symbol is meaningless,
but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.
Evey: I wish I believed that was possible.
But every time I’ve seen this world change, it’s always been for the worse.
My father was a writer. You would have liked him.
He used to say artists used lies to tell the truth,
while politicians used them to cover the truth up.
~Evey
After so many years, you begin to lose more than just your appetite.
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
~Gordon
What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country.
This message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television.
The end result, the true genius of the plan was the fear.
Fear became the ultimate tool of this government.
Through it, our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of high chancellor.
The rest, as they say, is history.
There is a face beneath this mask but it’s not me.
I’m no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it or the bones beneath them.
