Project Itoh > Quotes

“The instant the old folks had entered their codes and the Harmony program had begun to sing, suicide disappeared from human society. Nearly all battles ceased. The individual was no longer a unit. The entire social system was the unit. By losing its sense of self and self-awareness, society had been freed from the pain it suffered because its systems had relied on imperfect humans, arriving for the first time at a perfect bliss. I am a part of the system, as you are part of the system. No one felt any pain about that any longer. There was no “me” to feel pain. I had been replaced by a single...”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“Isn´t it cool? Words, books, fiction all have the power to kill.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“For people living in fear, moderation just doesn't cut it. And most of the people in my world are fearful. It's like keeping a piggy bank when you never empty your wallet in the first place.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“If there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.”
― Project Itoh

“To depart without giving a reason why is to leave a curse on those you leave behind. Questions linger: Why didn't i realize something was wrong? What could I have done differently? Was it my fault? And, of course, the dead don't reply. So there's basically no way to lift the curse. Time is a great healer, but an imperfect one, as anyone who has ever been assaulted in the dead of night by uneasy, shameful feelings knows. Even those memories consigned to oblivion by the conscious mind may still be in there somewhere, lurking, never completely forgotten by the unconscious mind.”
― Project Itoh, Genocidal Organ

“Seen from the outside, death was a very gradual process of cell decomposition. It took time. Death didn't happen in an instant.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“The reality we can accept is limited to our consciousness, after all.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“Heidrich and Himmler tried to eliminate obesity among the SS, Professor Saeki said. Himmler's dream was that one day, all Germans would be vegetarians”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“We were chasing after the perfect human but ended up killing consciousness, for it was no longer needed.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“People like rigid rules and prohibitions, you know. They make them for themselves and live in fear that, if they don't uphold the restrictions, then things will go back to the way they were -the dark ages,chaos.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“Reality and consciousness are the same.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“You are so filled with your faith that you must push it upon us as well. And this is why we fight.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“If you plot perceived value on a graph, with the horizontal axis as time and the present as zero, then you will see the line representing value curve sharply upward the closer it comes to the zero point, reaching its zenith as it hits the vertical axis. By comparison, value in the far future goes low quickly, changing hardly at all between a year and two years distant. A hyperbola. When humans and most living creatures consider the value of something, they tend to see its future value diminish hyperbolically. In other words, our system of evaluation isn't exponentioally logical, it's hyperbolically illogical.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“When you want some real solitude, dead-tree media's the only way to go. Then it's just the two of us. Me and the medium.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“I remembered seeing a media channel where they showed picture after picture of food items I had never seen before in my life. When I asked my father what it was, he said they called it the “Two Minutes’ Hate.”
― Project Itoh

“We are just collections of DNA optimized for particular places and times.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“In the nine years I’d known Snake, this was the first time I’d heard him reference Star Wars.”
― Project Itoh, Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots

“You might be physically taking part in battle, but you're not really there. Something's missing. I'm sure the same goes for your comrades too. You kill enemies right in front of your own eyes yet you never feel the accompanying emotions or reactions. You wonder whether the intent to kill was ever really yours. You start to doubt whether you can take ownership of the deaths that you cause.”
― Project Itoh, Genocidal Organ

“No one who waves a big flag is up to any good.”
― Project Itoh, Harmony

“I am the lightning … the rain transformed.”
― Project Itoh, Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots

“Her code name in battle: The Joy. She gave herself to fight for others, to protect others. And in it she found her joy.”
― Project Itoh, Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots

“The Japanese have a saying that all honest trades are equally honorable.”
― Project Itoh, Genocidal Organ

“all honest trades are equally honorable”
― Project Itoh, Genocidal Organ

“When the time came for Snake to leave, Sunny stood at the edge of the cargo bay, waved goodbye, and called out, “S-see you, Snake!” Snake returned a smile. He would be gone for at least several days—several days without having to endure her fried eggs. I looked at Sunny, watching Snake reach the edge of the tarmac, and I thought, We’re something like a family, aren’t we.”
― Project Itoh, Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots