Oliver Bowden > Quotes

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

“Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

“Self expression is a vital part of understanding life, and enjoying it to the full.”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

“Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“What is the truth?’ he asked.
‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’

‘What is the world, then?’
‘An illusion,’ replied Altaïr. ‘One we can either submit to – as most do – or transcend.’

‘And what is it to transcend?’
'To recognize that laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our Creed does not command us to be free.’ And suddenly he really did understand. ‘It commands us to be wise”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine' -the Wisdom of our Creed is revealed through these words - 'We work in the Dark, to serve the Light. We are Assassins.' --Machiavelli”
― Oliver Bowden, Brotherhood

“I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply, I am good at it.”
― Oliver Bowden, Forsaken

“Mother. Father. I am sorry. I have failed you both. I made a promise to protect our people, Mother. I thought if I could stop the Templars, If I could keep the revolution free from their influence, then those I supported would do what was right. They did, I suppose, do what was right - what was right for them. As for you, Father, I thought I might unite us, that we would forget the past and forge a better future. In time, I believed you could be made to see the world as I do - to understand. But it was just a dream. This, too, I should have known. Were we not meant to live in peace, then? Is that it? Are we born to argue? To fight? So many voices - each demanding something else.
"It has been hard at times, but never harder than today. To see all I worked for perverted, discarded, forgotten. You would say I have described the whole of history, Father. Are you smiling, then? Hoping I might speak the words you long to hear? To validate you? To say that all along you were right? I will not. Even now, faced as I am with the truth of your cold words, I refuse. Because I believe things can still change.
"I may never succeed. The Assassins may struggle another thousand years in vain. But we will not stop."
"Compromise. That's what everyone has insisted on. And so I have learnt it. But differently than most, I think. I realize now that it will take time, that the road ahead is long and shrouded in darkness. It is a road which will not always take me where I wish to go - and I doubt I will live to see it end. But I will travel down it nonetheless."
"For at my side walks hope. In the face of all that insists I turn back, I carry on: this, this is my compromise.”
― Oliver Bowden, Forsaken

“It is a good life we lead, brother,' said Federico with uncharacteristic solemnity.

'The best,' Ezio agreed.'And may it never change.'

They both paused - neither wishing to break the perfection of the moment - but after a while Federico quietly spoke.'May it never change us either, fratellino.”
― oliver bowden, Renaissance

“To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say that everything is permitted, is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic.”
― Oliver Bowden, Brotherhood

“Listen, do you really expect me to believe that God lives beneath the Vatican?- Ezio Auditore”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

“It is one thing to have a mind that is open. It is quite another to have one so open that the birds can shit into it.”
― Oliver Bowden, The Secret Crusade

“Don't think I have any intention of caressing your cheek and saying I was wrong," he said softly as I watched the life ebb out of him. "I will not weep and wonder what might have been. I'm sure you understand.”
― Oliver Bowden, Forsaken

“Seré tu guía, Ezio. Pero antes debes aprender a abrir tu mente, y a recordar siempre lo siguiente: nada es verdad. Todo está permitido.”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

“Our Creed does not command us to be free. It commands us to be wise.”
― Oliver Bowden, The Secret Crusade

“Death doesn’t wait for you to finish a book.” “Then read what you can, while you can.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: Revelations

“These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to see the world as it truly is.(...)You turn to them for answers and salvation. (...) You rely more upon them than upon yourselves. This makes you weak and stupid. You trust in words. Drops of ink. Do you ever stop to think of who put them there? Or why? No. You simply accept their words without question. And what if those words speak falsely, as they often do? This is dangerous.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“We are what we choose to be.”
― Oliver Bowden, The Secret Crusade

“Requiescat in pace
-Ezio Auditore”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

“Learning is knowledge and knowledge is freedom and power. He knew that. He had forgotten that, somehow. But he knew it once more.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve to
think otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’

‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put to rest.’

‘Am I not unlike those precious books you seek to save? A source of knowledge
with which you disagree? Yet you’re rather quick to steal my life.’

‘A small sacrifice to save many. It is necessary.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“No!" He recoiled. "You and I are finished."
"Son..." I started.
But he rounded on me. "Do you think me so soft that calling me son might change my mind? How long did you sit on this information? Or am I to believe you only discovered it now? My mother's blood may stain another's hands, but Charles Lee is no less a monster, and all he does, he does by your command.”
― Oliver Bowden, Forsaken

“Men must be free to do as they believe,” he told Jubair. He withdrew the blade from Jubair’s neck. Blood dripped to the marble. “It is not our right to punish one for thinking what he does, no matter how much we disagree.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“It is too late for me to feel paternal now. Whatever inside me that might once have been capable of nurturing my child had long since been corrupted or burned away. Years of betrayal and slaughter have seen to that.”
― Oliver Bowden, Forsaken

“How naïve to believe that there might be a single answer to every question. Every mystery. That there exists a lone, divine light that rules over everything. They say it is a light that brings truth and love. I say it is a light that blinds us—and forces us to stumble about in ignorance. I long for the day when men will turn away from invisible monsters, and once more embrace a more rational view of the world. But these new religions are so convenient—and promise such terrible punishment should one reject them—I worry that fear shall keep us stuck to what is truly the greatest lie ever told . . .”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: Revelations

“The Templars lost their Christianity when they discovered banking,”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“The crowd began to murmur, but then a firm voice stilled it. Giovanni Auditore was speaking.'It is you who is the traitor, Uberto. You, one of my closest associates and friends, in whom I entrusted my life! And I am a fool. I did not see that you are one of them!' Here he raised his voice to a great cry of anguish and of rage.'You may take our lives today, but mark this - we will have yours in return!'

-Giovanni Auditore,
Before his execution”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

“most men are so afraid of beautiful girls that anyone who actually plucks up the courage to have a chat stands at an immediate advantage”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

“You'll forgive me if I've grown tired of waiting for humanity to wake up.”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance