Bioshock 4 Quotes & Sayings

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain. — Tom Bissell

The average action game doesn't much traffic in thematic grandiosity, but the BioShock games are different. — Tom Bissell

Ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas. — Martin Cohen

Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink comes dehors and kills you! Poisons you ... And it has black spots on his back, and a head like a coq, and half goes erect over the terra, and half on the terra like the other serpents. And it kills the bellula ... '
'The bellula?'
'Oc! Parvissimum animal, just a bit plus longue than the rat, and also called the musk-rat. And so the serpe and the botta. And when they bite it, the bellula runs to the fenicula or to the cicerbita and chews it, and comes back to the battaglia. And they say it generates through the oculi, but most say they are wrong.'
I asked him what he was doing with a basilisk and he said that was his business. — Umberto Eco

What takes place in me stays there. — Frank Bidart

A man chooses...a slave obeys. — Andrew Ryan

Even in a book of lies sometimes you find truth. There is indeed a season for all things and now that I see you flesh-to-flesh and blood-to-blood I know I cannot raise my hand against you. But know this, you are my greatest disappointment. Does your master hear me? Atlas! You can kill me, but you will never have my city. My strength is not in steel and fire, that is what the parasites will never understand. A season for all things! A time to live and a time to die, a time to build ... and a time to destroy! — Andrew Ryan

Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how. — Kim Harrison

There's two ways to deal with mystery: uncover it, or eliminate it. — Andrew Ryan

They say sex is all in the mind. That's not strictly true. Desire begins in the mind but is satisfied in the body. The erotic understands this. The erotic is the completion of a mental need played out on a physical playground. Once you go erotic you never go back. — Chloe Thurlow

Cancers of all types among women are increasing. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose ... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well. — Andrew Ryan

If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb — John Shirley

To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is ... a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men. — Michael Shaara

When everyone disconnects you ...
Your Lord connects with you. — Adil Adam Memon

Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations. — Oscar Arias

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener