Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

"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. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside."

"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."

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

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

"Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is"