Wintermute Episode Quotes

#1. Billions of people, including many scientists, continue to use religious scripture as a source of authority, but these texts are no longer a source of creativity.

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#3. For the able, every hard thing is easy, every tough path is walkable, every closed door is openable, and every scary river is passable! Just improve your abilities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. FBI vs. CIA
When a person works for the FBI for 20 years and retires,
he gets a watch.
When a person works for the CIA for 20 years and retires,
he gets watched.
I know this not because I'm in law enforcement or with the NSA ~

I know this because I have HBO.

Beryl Dov

#5. One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

Michel Faber

#6. Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

Arthur Cravan

#7. Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

Naomi Wolf

#8. A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Tom Stoppard

#9. Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.

Nell Irvin Painter

#10. The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Karl Kraus