I leave you the best phrases of Rorschach, a character from Watchmen, the acclaimed comic series by Alan Moore and David Gibbons. If there was ever someone willing to look into the depths of our soul and expose the darkest perversions, capable of exposing the hypocrisy of modern society, it was Rorschach.
The rottenness of the modern world is everywhere, it can be seen on the streets of any city. However, we dare not look directly at her putrid face. Few have had the courage to recognize themselves in the pathological vices that mark the step of our funeral march towards conformism, social disintegration and absolute violence.
1 - It was at night that I put on this mask. I never wanted to look at my face in the mirror again. I am ashamed to be part of the human race. So I'm not anymore. No longer.
2 - The news is how the world screams in pain. They need to hear it. Constantly. And again.
3 - Sometimes, to do things right you have to do things wrong. I am willing to do those things. I have always been willing to do them.
4 - The city rots. Trash and decrepitude pile up, becoming our homes. Monuments are erected to the corruption of those in positions of power.
5 - This city fears me. I have seen her true face.
6 - The streets are sewers full of blood and when they finally lock up, all the vermin will drown.
7 - The dirt accumulated by sex and murder will make a foam that will reach their waist. All the whores and politicians will look to the sky and shout: save us! I'll look away to whisper: no.
8 - I live my life free of commitment and pass through the shadows without complaints or regret.
9 - This rudderless world is not determined by vague metaphysical forces.
10 - It is not God who kills children. It is not luck that dismembers them or fate that feeds their remains to the dogs. We are. Only U.S.
11 - Typical. Society refuses to take the necessary steps to save itself from itself.
12 - None of you seem to understand. I am not locked in here with you. They are locked in here with me!
13 - God does not make the world the way it is. We have done so.
14 - Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.
15 - Keep your own secrets…
16 - Suddenly you discover humanity. Convenient.
17 - If you had cared from the beginning, none of this would have happened.
18 - Give me back my face!
19 - Justice Matters!
20 - A comedian died last night, and nobody cares. Nobody cares more than me.
21 - Once a man has seen the black belly of society, he can never turn his back on it. You should not pretend that it does not exist.
22 - It's funny, the ancient pharaohs expected the end of the world. Waiting for the corpses to rise up and retrieve their hearts from the gold jars. Currently they must continue to hold their breath while waiting.
23 - Is that what they say about me now? That I am paranoid?
24 - Good joke. Everybody laughs. Drumroll. The curtains are closed.
25 - Existence is random. It has no safe pattern that we can imagine after staring at it for too long.
26 - Without my face, nobody knows. Nobody knows who I am.
27 - He's not in the attic. It's not in the office. What nocturnal tendency attracts the man towards the night at this hour?
28 - You keep calling me Walter, I don't like you.
29 - An attack against one of us is an attack against all of us.
30 - Your turn doctor, tell me: what do you see?
31 - Now everyone is on the brink, looking down straight into hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and demagogues… and suddenly no one can think of anything to say.
32 - What if that's why someone wants us out of the way? So we can't do anything to stop it?
33 - I'm going to go tell the indestructible man that someone plans to assassinate him.
34 - He stood in the firelight, suffocating. He had a bloodstain on his chest, like a map of the violent new continent. I felt clean. I felt the dark planet under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies at night.
35 - I looked at the sky through the smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there.
36 - The dark and suffocating cold continues forever and we are alone.
37- The emptiness breathed forcefully into my heart, turned my illusions into ice, breaking them. I was reborn then, free to scribble a design of my own in this morally blank world. It was Rorschach.
38 - On Friday night, a comedian died in New York. Anyone know why. Down there, someone knows.
39 - Soon there will be war. Millions will burn. Millions will perish in disease and misery.
40 - Why does one death matter more than many deaths? Because there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished.
41 - This city is dying of rage. Is it the best I can do to clean random stains from the foam from your lips?
42 - Why are so few of us who are active, healthy and without personality disorders?
43 - Nothing is unsolvable. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there is life.
44 - A life of conflict with no time for friends… so that when it all ends, only our enemies leave roses.
45 - We never die in bed. It's not allowed. Could it be something in our personality, perhaps? Some animal instinct that makes us fight and fight, that makes us what we are? Never mind.
46 - Below me, this terrible city, screams like a slaughterhouse full of retarded children.
47 - American love, like Coca-Cola in green glass bottles, is no longer produced.
48 - He was too disturbed to realize that he had fallen asleep without removing the skin from his head.
49 - This city is an animal, fierce and complicated. To understand it, I read its excrement, its smells, the movement of its parasites… I sit down to look at its garbage cans and New York opens its heart to me.
50 - Has everything gone crazy except me?
51 - My things were where I left them. Waiting for me. By putting them on, I abandoned my disguise and became myself, free from fear or weakness or lust. My coat, my shoes, my impeccable gloves. My face.
52 - Sometimes the night is generous with me.