"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence."
— Dinobot, Beast Wars
"It was as though the Prodigal Son had returned. They welcomed me as though I had never left, never done anything to shame them. The fire that had kept me alive was love. Their love. God's love. I will never be able to repay the debt I owe to them... but I must try."
— Joshua Graham, Fallout: New Vegas
"If these people tell this story to their children as they sleep,
Maybe someday, they'll see a Hero is just a man who knows he is free."
Maybe someday, they'll see a Hero is just a man who knows he is free."
—Protoman, The Sons of Fate (The Protomen)
General Herres: Over the past sixteen months, Doctor, I have presided over the greatest wholesale slaughter of military personnel and civilians in the history of... history. Genghis Khan, Hitler, Stalin, Sorabella - add 'em together, they don't even come close. (...) So instead of letting what I've done sink into the murk, forgotten... I've sent a file with all the details. Let posterity judge my actions with clear vision.
Dr. Sobeck: I'll do as you ask, General. But you should consider that, were it not for your actions... our actions... there wouldn't be any posterity to judge us.
Dr. Sobeck: I'll do as you ask, General. But you should consider that, were it not for your actions... our actions... there wouldn't be any posterity to judge us.
Gray Ghost: 230 lives, each one without an epilogue to their story... why are you openly admitting this when it would make more sense to keep quiet?
Fairy Leviathan: Because Manehattan needs to know. Yes, it would probably be better if they believed that the alien robot in their midst was a morally upstanding individual who wouldn't hurt a fly if she didn't need to, but that would be a lie. I'm not going to sugarcoat what I've done: I've murdered innocents in the name of a tyrant, and it took the arrival of an even worse tyrant and a meeting with the real X while I was comatose to make me realize that. There's no excusing it. The citizens of this city... no, those of Equestria need to know exactly who I am, what I've done, and what I'm capable of. Otherwise, they aren't going to have the complete picture.
Fairy Leviathan: Because Manehattan needs to know. Yes, it would probably be better if they believed that the alien robot in their midst was a morally upstanding individual who wouldn't hurt a fly if she didn't need to, but that would be a lie. I'm not going to sugarcoat what I've done: I've murdered innocents in the name of a tyrant, and it took the arrival of an even worse tyrant and a meeting with the real X while I was comatose to make me realize that. There's no excusing it. The citizens of this city... no, those of Equestria need to know exactly who I am, what I've done, and what I'm capable of. Otherwise, they aren't going to have the complete picture.
Doctor: Dachau. Why does it still stand? Why do we keep it standing?
Rod Serling: There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes — all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it, they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone, but wherever men walk God's earth.
Rod Serling: There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes — all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it, they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone, but wherever men walk God's earth.
Commander Shepard: I didn't think you'd had much direct contact with things like this. Did you come to Tuchanka after dropping your plague?
Mordin Solus: Yearly recon missions - water, tissue samples. Ensure no mistakes. Superiors offered to carry it on... Refused. Need to see it in person. Need to look. Need to see, accept it as necessary. (Inhales) ...See small picture. Remind myself why I run a clinic on Omega. (Holds a hand out over a dead Krogan female) Rest, young mother. Find your gods. Find some place better.
Mordin Solus: Yearly recon missions - water, tissue samples. Ensure no mistakes. Superiors offered to carry it on... Refused. Need to see it in person. Need to look. Need to see, accept it as necessary. (Inhales) ...See small picture. Remind myself why I run a clinic on Omega. (Holds a hand out over a dead Krogan female) Rest, young mother. Find your gods. Find some place better.
Now I'm not looking for absolution
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps!
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes
Try walking in my shoes
You'll stumble in my footsteps!
— Depeche Mode, "Walking In My Shoes"
