Forget morality, imagine it’s true, alright? Imagine this technology being used. Now imagine it being used on you. Everything you believe, gone. Everyone you love, strangers, maybe enemies. Every part of you that makes you more than a walking cluster of neurons dissolved - at someone else’s whim. If that techology exists, it’ll be used, it’ll be abused, it’ll be global. And we will be over. As a species, we will cease to matter. I don’t know, maybe we should.
(Source: nathaliem)
Dr. Saunders: You can’t, Victor. You can’t be your best. Your best is past. A past you can’t even remember. You’re ugly now. You’re disgusting. All you can hope for now is pity. And for that, you’re going to have to look somewhere else.
Victor: I’m sorry.
Dollhouse 1x12 Omega
Dollhouse 2x09 Stop-Loss
Whiskey: This is the endgame. This is where it all leads. You design someone to hate you so you can convince them to love you.
Topher: Hey, I could whip up a love slave anytime I want.
Whiskey: But that wouldn’t be a challenge, would it? Slaves are just slaves. But winning over your enemy- the one person guaranteed to hate everything you are - that’s real love. More real than anything in the world. And I understand it now. I love you.
Topher: You need a freakin’ treatment!
Whiskey: Why shouldn’t I love you? Aren’t you loveable? Aren’t you Big Brother? Aren’t you the Lord my God? Why should I fight your devine plan?
Topher: ‘Cause you’re better than that! Because you’re better than me. Dr. Saunders was dead, and Whiskey was out of service, at least temporarily. So DeWitt gave me the call. “We need a new doctor. One who’s committed to our cause, who’s kind and efficient and will look after our actives.”
Whiskey: So why didn’t you stop there?
Topher: Because I was designing a person, not a Roomba. I needed you to be whole. If you agreed with everything I said, then we would miss something and someone would get hurt.
Whiskey: You don’t care if people get hurt.
Topher: You don’t know me! That’s the contract. You don’t know me, and I don’t know you. Not fully, not ever. I made you question. I made you fight for your beliefs. I didn’t make you hate me… you chose to.
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Topher: You’re human.
Whiskey: Don’t flatter yourself.
(via nathaliem)
Caroline: I know what you’re doing here. I know all about Rossum’s sick experiments.
Boyd: So, why gather? You’re quite the supersleuth.
Caroline: You can’t do anything to me. People will find out.
Boyd: People? Will find out? Caroline, don’t be silly. We both know you could vanish off the face of the Earth and not a soul would notice you were gone.
Dollhouse 2x12 The Hollow Men
Adelle: Victor. This is coming along well.
Victor: Thank you.
Adelle: We made a deal with Paul Ballard. Either we honor that deal or he exposes us or I order you to do something… extreme. I’d like to avoid the latter two. I have plans for the erstwhile agent
Victor: You’re touching my face.
Adelle: Move along.
Dollhouse, 2x01 “Vows”