V for Vendetta Quotes (2005)
Delia Surridge: You’ve come to kill me, haven’t you?
V: Yes.
Delia Surridge: Thank God.
Creedy: Not so funny now is it, funny man?
V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Evey Hammond: [after V leads Evey up to an empty rooftop, promising her an orchestra] I don’t see any instruments.
V: Your powers of observation continue to serve you well.
Finch: Why are you doing this?
Evey Hammond: Because he was right.
Finch: About what?
Evey Hammond: That the world needs more than just a building right now. It needs hope.
Evey Hammond: You’re getting back at them for what they did to you?
V: What they did to me was monstrous.
Evey Hammond: And they created a monster.
Lilliman: Please, have mercy!
V: Not tonight.
Evey Hammond: I don’t want you to die.
V: That is the most beautiful thing you could have ever given me.
V: Would you like to dance?
Evey Hammond: Now?! On the eve of your revolution?
V: A revolution without dancing…is a revolution not worth having!
Interrogator: I’m instructed to inform you that you have been convicted by special tribunal and that, unless you are prepared to offer your cooperation, you are to be executed. Do you understand what I’m telling you?
Evey Hammond: Yes.
Interrogator: Are you ready to cooperate?
Evey Hammond: …no.
V: No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty, I’m no longer standing, because if I am… you’ll all be dead before you’ve reloaded.
Finch: One thing is true of all governments – their most reliable records are tax records.
Creedy: Die! Die! Why won’t you die?… Why won’t you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
Creedy: Why should I trust you?
V: Because it’s the only way you’re ever going to stop me!
Dominic: What do you think’s going to happen?
Finch: What usually happens when people without guns stand up to people with guns.
V: I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.
V: …A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. A symbol, in and of itself is powerless, but with enough people behind it, blowing up a building can change the world.
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