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Chris Carter Quotes

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“Your own government lies as a matter of course, as a matter of policy…”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Government, Lies
“To doubt it is a failure of more than the imagination. It is a failure to recognize the limits of our own stupidity, the nascency of our science, the rudiment of our tools.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 11: My Struggle III
Tagged: Doubt, Failure, Imagination, stupidity, Science, Tools
“You see a man lying here, a seemingly weak man, but I’m the most powerful man in the world.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Weak, Powerful, Contradictions
“I have never met anyone so passionate and dedicated to a belief as you. It’s so intense that sometimes it’s blinding.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: Young at Heart
Tagged: intense, dedicated, Passionate
“It looks like this person was born without footprints. Which is impossible, by the way.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: Home Again
Tagged: teratological anomalies
“Cutler’s eye-line is trained above the door, about Tim Duncan height. We can eliminate any 76ers, ’cause those guys can’t find the rim.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: Home Again
Tagged: Tim Duncan, 76ers
“Alien technology being used against us, not by aliens, not with aliens, but by a venal conspiracy of men against humanity.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Aliens, Technology
“Mulder… listen to me. As your friend and as a physician, you are on dangerous ground here.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Warning, dangerous ground
“I have seen this before. You’re on fire, believing that you’re onto some truth, that you can save the world.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Messiah Complex
“How they police us and spy on us, tell us that makes us safer? We’ve never been in more danger.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Surveillance, Police State, danger
“The science that we were taught takes us but a distance towards the truth.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Science, Truth
“We must ask ourselves…are they really a hoax? Are we truly alone? Or are we being lied to?”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Alone, Hoax, Conspiracy
“Notice they didn’t get a picture of it, which is odd, because everybody always has a camera on them these days.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Tagged: camera, Pictures, Selfies
“Mulder, sometimes I think the world is going to hell and we’re the only two people who can save it.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 11: Plus One
Tagged: Savior Complex
“If this thing looks like those drawings, I’m emptying my clip into it. Even if it is in its underwear.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Tagged: Cryptozoology
“Scully, I gave up profiling before I gave up monsters. You’ve seen one serial killer, you’ve seen ’em all.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Tagged: Profiling, killers, Serial Killers, monsters
“Conscience is just the voices of the dead trying to save us from our own damnation.”
— Christopher Johansen, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: Piper Maru
Tagged: X-Files, Conscience, dead
“We send those men up into space to unlock the doors of the universe, and we don't even know what's behind them.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: Space
Tagged: X-Files, Space, Universe
“Men can never be free, because they're weak, corrupt, worthless... and restless. The people believe in authority. They've grown tired of waiting for miracle or mystery. Science is their religion.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 3: Talitha Cumi
Tagged: X-Files, Science, Religion
“We over-populate the world and create new technologies to kill each other with. Maybe we're just beasts with big brains.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: The Jersey Devil
Tagged: X-Files, humans, Destruction
“I just changed the timetable. Everyone still dies in the end.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Death, timetable
“I didn’t set out to destroy the world, Mulder. People did.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Destruction, Malice
“I’ve controlled you since before you knew I existed.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Control
“‘Back in the day.’ Scully, ‘back in the day’ is now.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: Home Again
Tagged: Back in the Day, live in the moment
“I know what I’m doing.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Confidence
“Waters: Look, Hobbes, you gotta get out of here!

Hobbes: Where’s Santiago?

Waters: Oh, Bloody Mary, you don’t get it. The game! Get in, get out, get Santiago, it’s all a freakin’ lie, Hobbes! It’s not a game! No getting out, no going home. I got the same mission.”
— Waters, Harsh Realm, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Game, Reality, Get Out, mission, army, Lie, Trick
“We do our work. The truth still lies in the X-Files, Mulder.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 11: My Struggle III
Tagged: Truth
“The world will go on. Just in my image instead of God’s.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: World, blasphemy
“We have a small problem. They’ve reopened the X-Files.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Problem
“Mulder, the Internet is not good for you.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 10: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Tagged: Internet, Internet Addiction
“All we can do, Scully, is pull the thread, see what it unravels.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: Founder's Mutation
Tagged: Anticipation
“I’m old-school, Mulder. Pre-Google.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 10: Founder's Mutation
Tagged: Old School, Google
“Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle II
Tagged: Weakness, Cigarettes
“We’ve been given another case, Mulder. It has a monster in it.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 10: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Tagged: monster
“You want the truth, Agent Mulder? You’ve come to the right place.”
— Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 10: Babylon
Tagged: Truth
“Some jobs keep pulling you back.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 10: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Tagged: Jobs, relapsing
“Conspiracy sells…it pays for bulletproof limousines.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, Season 10: My Struggle
Tagged: Bulletproof, Conspiracy
“The truth is out there. But so are lies.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 1: Young at Heart
Tagged: X-Files, Truth, Lies
“You can't protect the public by lying to them.”
— Fox Mulder, The X-Files, The X-Files Season 2: F. Emasculata
Tagged: X-Files, Lies, Government
“A mother never forgets.”
— Dana Scully, The X-Files, Season 10: Founder's Mutation
Tagged: Motherhood
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