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“Competition is healthy.”
— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Sunrise
Tagged: healthy, Competition, Healthy Competition
“I don’t plan on dying, Frank, but you can’t live your life in fear.”
— Mark Sampson, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Truth
Tagged: live, Can't Live In Fear, Fear
“Evil triumphs only when good men do nothing.”
— Randall, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Sunrise
Tagged: Evil, Evil Wins, Being Complicit, Doing Nothing
“One thing I realized about my people is we got a different sense of time. These may be dark years, but we’ll survive. We always do. You’ve just got to find something to hold on to.”
— Mark Sampson, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Truth
Tagged: survive, We'll Survive, Dark Times
“Risking your life to prevent a world war is one thing. Risking it to save mine was never part of the deal.”
— Rudolph Wegener, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: The New Normal
Tagged: world wars, Risk, Risking Your Life, Not Part of the deal
“Nothing is without effort. You know that, Rudolph. There are those with short memories who seek to drag us all backward.”
— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Three Monkeys
Tagged: Memories, Bringing Us Down, Effort
“In war as in life, Joe, sacrifices have to be made.”
— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Three Monkeys
Tagged: Life, War, Sacrifices
“Some of us are just the same, rotten or kind in one reality, rotten or kind in the next, but most people are different, depending on whether they have food in their belly or they’re hungry, safe or scared.”
— Hawthorne Abendsen, The Man in the High Castle, Season 2: The Tiger's Cave
Tagged: Reality, different, People, Everyone Is Different
“The bigger the fish, the greater the patience to catch it.”
— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Sunrise
Tagged: Patience, Be Patient, The Bigger The Fish
“The decadence ruined this country before the war.”
— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Sunrise
Tagged: Decadence, Ruined Lives, War
“We are all subject to rules, Miss Crain, and if we fail to live by them, the consequences are severe.”
— Inspector Kido, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: The New Normal
Tagged: Rules, order, Consequences
“This ends only when people like us refuse to obey, no matter the cost.”
— Randall, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Sunrise
Tagged: Refusing To Obey, obedience
“Accepting a task graciously brings good fortune to all.”
— Nobusuke Tagomi, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Truth
Tagged: good fortune, Tasks, Acceptance
“A man is only ever as strong as the people around him: The community he serves and the family he is sworn to protect. Whatever strength he has, he draws from them. And for them, he must be prepared to give everything. His life for his blood, or else everything he has done, has been for nothing. He is nothing.”
— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 2: Land O' Smiles
Tagged: strength, You Are Who You Surround Yourself With, Family, Community
“Fear is never to be trusted.”
— Nobusuke Tagomi, The Man in the High Castle, Season 2: Kintsugi
Tagged: Fear, Trust, Don't Trust Fear
“Jews don’t get to decide if they’re Jews.”
— Inspector Kido, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Sunrise
Tagged: Jewish, Jews
“Peace is not weakness.”
— Nobusuke Tagomi, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Revelations
Tagged: Peace, Weakness, Not Weakness
“The cultures we were born into mean that we do things differently. And yet I suspect that we also hold many of the same things in the highest esteem.”
— Nobusuke Tagomi, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Three Monkeys
Tagged: Culture, born, Differences and Similarities
“Running away isn’t the same as being free.”
— Juliana Crain, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: A Way Out
Tagged: Running Away, Freedom, Free
“You don’t need anybody to keep you down because you got your own little inner fascist right there telling you what you can and cannot do. That’s how you let them win.”
— Mark Sampson, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Truth
Tagged: Fascism, Letting Them Win
“Wherever there is power there is subversion.”
— Inspector Kido, The Man in the High Castle, Season 2: Escalation
Tagged: Power, Subversion, Power Dynamics
“In life there are too many questions with a lack of time to answer them.”
— Nobusuke Tagomi, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Truth
Tagged: Questions, Answers, Not enough time, Life
“We owe our hearts and our minds not to any one man but to an idea.”
— Reinhard Heydrich, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: A Way Out
Tagged: Hearts, minds, Ideas
“You may prey upon the weak and the corrupt, but do not for a moment think you can shake down officers of the Emperor’s Kempeitai.”
— Inspector Kido, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: End of the World
Tagged: preying on the weak, Corruption, Corrupt
“You must trust the woman in your life with your life.”
— John Smith, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Three Monkeys
Tagged: Trust, Trust Women, Trusting Someone
“It takes a lot of effort not to be free. I kept my head down for so long, I forgot what it feels like to stand up.”
— Frank Frink, The Man in the High Castle, Season 2: Escalation
Tagged: Freedom, Being Free, Free
“We were only ever as happy as they allowed us to be.”
— Juliana Crain, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: Three Monkeys
Tagged: Happy, Happiness
“There comes a time when all men must bear the weight of their responsibility.”
— Inspector Kido, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: A Way Out
Tagged: Responsibility, You're Responsible For Yourself
“It is far from easy to be a good man. In fact, as one gets older, it becomes more and more difficult to know what a good man is. Yet it also becomes increasingly important to at least try.”
— Rudolph Wegener, The Man in the High Castle, Season 1: A Way Out
Tagged: Being a Good Person, Good Men, It's Not Easy, Always Try To Do What's Right
“When one is troubled by the reality of this world, it can be comforting to consider other possibilities, even if those possibilities disturb us, so strong is the desire to escape the tyranny of consciousness and the narrow boundaries of our perceptions, to unlock the prisons of thought in which we trap ourselves, all in the hope that a better world or a better version of ourselves, perhaps, may lie on the other side of the door.”
— Nobusuke Tagomi, The Man in the High Castle, Season 2: The Road Less Traveled
Tagged: Reality, Perception Is Everything, Escapism
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