"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
— Matt Taibbi
"When someone says, 'We've got people everywhere', you expect it to be hyperbole! Lots of people say that. Florists use that expression! It doesn't mean that they've got somebody working for them inside the bloody room!"
— M, Quantum of Solace
"It's like I said: I'm just one small part in a great machine."
— Knox, Angel, "A Hole in the World"
"This city was literally built by my people. Brick by blood-soaked brick. And decade after decade the city screams at you that it cannot function financially without men just like me. The city is structured socially, politically, economically around us. Through us. Because of us. What I am telling you is that when you finally do understand this... your life will become a lot less stressful."
Bruce Wayne: Gotham isn't beyond saving. Give me more time. There are good people here—
Ra's al Ghul: You are defending a city that is so corrupt that we have infiltrated every level of its infrastructure.
Ra's al Ghul: You are defending a city that is so corrupt that we have infiltrated every level of its infrastructure.
Odo: Captain, there's something you need to know. The Changeling... before he died, he whispered something to me.
Sisko: Go on.
Odo: He said, "You're too late. We're everywhere."
Sisko: Go on.
Odo: He said, "You're too late. We're everywhere."
The Company, with godlike modesty, shuns all publicity. Its agents, of course, are secret; the orders it constantly (perhaps continually) imparts are no different from those spread wholesale by impostors.
Besides — who will boast of being a mere impostor? The drunken man who blurts out an absurd command, the sleeping man who suddenly awakes and turns and chokes to death the woman sleeping at his side — are they not, perhaps, implementing one of the Company's secret decisions?
Besides — who will boast of being a mere impostor? The drunken man who blurts out an absurd command, the sleeping man who suddenly awakes and turns and chokes to death the woman sleeping at his side — are they not, perhaps, implementing one of the Company's secret decisions?
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Lottery in Babylon
Many people ignore the workers who sort through their trash, blissfully throwing away what the Nosferatu harvest. They don't notice the construction workers toiling on skyscrapers far over their heads, or more importantly, the foreman who obediently follows his instructions for changes and alterations to the building's construction. Beneath the mortals' feet, workers scurry underground, performing unseen tasks, sometimes on epic projects the average citizen simply doesn't care about. Many of them are required to pass drug tests to keep their jobs, but even blood tests can't reveal an addiction to vitae.
— Vampire: The Masquerade — Clanbook: Nosferatu (Revised)
Earth is being invaded. By some not-nice creatures called Yeerks. They are a parasitic species, like tapeworms. Only they get into your head, not your stomach. They control you. Utterly. Totally. You're the Muppet and they're the hand. We call people like that Controllers. That's what you are when you're nothing but a human puppet under the control of the Yeerk in your head.
They are everywhere. They can be anyone. You'll never know for sure. Your dad, your mom, your brothers and sisters, the guy who comes to the house and fixes the furnace, the smarmy anchorman on the news, the politician, the teacher, the cute little kid... There is no way to know. No way to be sure who is, and who is not.
They are everywhere. They can be anyone. You'll never know for sure. Your dad, your mom, your brothers and sisters, the guy who comes to the house and fixes the furnace, the smarmy anchorman on the news, the politician, the teacher, the cute little kid... There is no way to know. No way to be sure who is, and who is not.
— Animorphs #20: The Discovery
Militia Leader: Well, you can lock me up, but you can't stop the Movement. We go to work with you. Our kids go to school with your kids. Hell, we might even live right next door. How are you gonna stop us all?
Horatio Caine: One animal at a time.
Erik Delko: We'll start by confiscating your computers. Hunting down your email contacts. And then track your credit card purchases, club memberships, hell, magazine subscriptions. Everything we need to do until all of you are rooted out. Because we never close. Ever.
Horatio Caine: One animal at a time.
Erik Delko: We'll start by confiscating your computers. Hunting down your email contacts. And then track your credit card purchases, club memberships, hell, magazine subscriptions. Everything we need to do until all of you are rooted out. Because we never close. Ever.
— CSI: Miami, "Pirated"
"It's a faceless enemy, unrecognizable, blending in with hundreds of others. It is everywhere. In cafés, in the alleys of the Casbah, or in the very streets of the European quarter."
— Colonel Mathieu on the FLN, The Battle of Algiers
"We are the darkness itself. And the darkness cannot be slain."
— Thales, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"The Night people. We're all around you, Phil. Anybody you know could be one — including the mayor. So keep your mouth shut."
— James, to Phillip, Night World: Secret Vampire
"We are formless. We are the very discipline Americans invoke so often."
"I am right behind you, Mr. Denton. Soon, I will be ahead of you, beside you — I will be a part of everything in your world."
— Icarus, Deus Ex
"You probably thought Chronos was simply a secret organization, but we are very public. Classmates, politicians, ambassadors. It is an international community all linked through the clandestine operations of the Chronos Corporation. A simple matter like the attack on the school is easily covered with key positions in the media, and the police are controlled by us. We're everywhere. We're everyone. The Earth is now within our grasp... a possession of Chronos."
— Agito, Guyver
"From now on, you must take good care of your toys, because if you don't, we'll find out, Sid! We toys can see EVERYTHING! [speaking and moving] So play nice!"
— Woody, Toy Story
