Command & Conquer/Quotes

He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past.

—Kane paraphrasing a famous line from Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Your actions have led us here, my faithul friend. The Temple is complete, and we are about to embark a path of our greatest exploit. For now relax, and watch as my Netrunners dance through the web of cyberspace... Once inside, the world is at my fingertips... Begin!

—Kane to the Nod Commander at the end of Nod campaign (Tiberian Dawn).

The world... Where to strike? Where shall the world most keenly feel the blade of GDI treachery? You have done much to aid the Brotherhood towards this final victory. The choice my friend, is yours.

—Kane allowing the Nod Commander to obliterate by the Ion Cannon strike either White House, Eiffel Tower, Houses of Parliament or the Brandenburg Gate at the end of Nod campaign (Tiberian Dawn).

Don't look so surprised Commander. And don't look around for you EVA, it can't help you now. Well. What shall we talk about, hmm? Your powerful GDI forces have been emasculated, and you yourself are a killer of children... Of course it's not true, but the world only believes what the media tells them to believe, and I tell the media what to believe, it's really quite simple. Oh, here's you little pad... But now that I know where you live Commander, it's only a matter of time. Were I in your shoes, I would spend my last earthly hours enjoying the world. Of course, if you wish, you can spend them fighting for a lost cause, but you know that you've lost.

—Kane to the GDI Commander (Tiberian Dawn).

It would be a sad error in judgement, General Solomon, to mistake me for a corpse... I've seen the future - our Tiberium future - and as you watch this battle just beginning to unfold, I've already seen the final act! It is my destiny to lead the way for all mankind.

—Kane to General Solomon (Tiberian Sun).

Rule of thumb, Hassan. You can't kill the Messiah.

—Kane before Hassan's execution (Tiberian Sun).

Rise my people. I have returned, never to leave your side again. GDI sought to destroy me, but they have only made me stronger. Today, we march forward into our future. A stronger people. A divined people, enhanced for the Tiberium world. The time has come, to claim this world as our own! The time has come, to destroy GDI ! One vision. One purpose! Peace through power!

—Returned Kane (Tiberian Sun).

You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!"

—Kane to Michael McNeil (Tiberian Sun).

The destruction of Philadelphia was not an accident. It was a merciful bullet to the head of a malignant ideology. It was the death of fear and the birth of hope! Rejoice, children of Nod! The blood of your oppressors will flow and the 50 years of tyranny will finally end! Transformation is coming, a new day will dawn! The future, is ours.

—Kane (Tiberium War).

And he cried in a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come forth!' and Lazarus did, arise from the grave... I have always believed that faith was measured in deeds, not words. And while many of my children worshipped my name, their deeds betrayed them. In my absence they strayed from the path... But you... you my son, your faith never waned. Not in Honduras or Jericho, not in the Great Rio Insurrection. You risked your life countless times to topple GDI, to perpetuate our cause to honor my name. And now I call upon you again to bring glory to the Brotherhood. I have seen that GDI is vulnerable, bloated by arrogance and complacency. Now is the time to strike. While they congratulate themselves on Tiberium advancements Nod made decades ago, we will expose their weaknesses for all the world to see.

—Kane to the Nod Commander (Tiberium Wars).

Good Afternoon, Commander! You must be lost, this is not your precious Blue Zone, this is Nod territory! I tell you what - I'll have my forces to send you home.... in a body bag.

—Kane to the GDI Commander in Croatia (Tiberium Wars).

Alexa wasn't wrong about you or the reach of your power. Her fear, however, was misplaced for you are the future! You are the One! You are LEGION!

—Kane to LEGION.

You and I are all that remain but are all that is necessary. For together we shall raise a great army...

—Kane to LEGION.

... and you my child, you must move to the next step in your evolution. Even CABAL will pale in comparison. For now, however, it is time to sleep. To sleep... perchance to dream...

—Kane before deactivating LEGION in order to upgrade the AI.

LEGION my child, you are my greatest creation. It is time for you to take center stage. Time for you to achieve the purpose for which you were created. One vision, one purpose!

—Kane last words to LEGION..

Where's my medal?

—Havoc (Renegade).

Conflict of intrest? No, I have intrest in conflict!

—Havoc, upon being told about Sakura's role (Renegade).

Evolve me? No thanks. I like being a caveman. Looks good on you though.

—Havoc rejecting the "Divine" Pertrova's offer to join the ReGenisis project. (Renegade).

We need order. CABAL. The Brotherhood needs CABAL. CABAL is order. CABAL is the hand of Kane.

—Anton Slavik.

I live for Kane, and I die for Kane. The difference is trivial.

—Anton Slavik.

Listen to the screams, listen. That is the sound of your extinction.

—CABAL.

The Brotherhood is at an evolutionary dead end. I am the only salvation to the continued supremacy of Nod. It is my world now.

—CABAL.

Let's get something straight: I don't take orders from you. I'm not fighting this war for you. I fight for the Forgotten.

—Umagon, to McNeil, before embarking on a mission.

Stick with me Commander and we will lead GDI to a brave new future.

—Redmond Boyle (Tiberium War).

Prepare a full invasion force. Earth will fall.

—The Scrin Overlord (Tiberium War).

Mission was... aborted. Foreman 371 ignored orders! They're traveling to Ichor Hub now!

—Scrin Supervisor, reporting 371's disobedience (Tiberium War).

The signal of the Tacitus has returned, you must find the artifact. You must capture it for Kane... I fear, however, if you do, you will become something... obscene.... CABAL's cyborg army murdered many innocents, murdered my parents! I pray I am wrong about you LEGION. I pray for us all.

—Alexa Kovacs to LEGION.

I bring light to the lost, and hope to the hopeless! I bring the promise of peace, and the prophecy of the power of Tiberium!

—Marcion.

His time is done! His legacy - a distant memory, for only I know the true path. Only I --

—Marcion on Kane.

Kane was a coward, and a traitor, who long ago lost faith to the purity that is Tiberium... His violent demise was the result of his own lies, and blasphemies. And he will be brought down, to the pit, of Hell, and all there will STARE at him and ask: Can this be the one who shook the Earth and the Kingdoms of the World?

—Marcion referring on Kane to LEGION.

A continental Soviet Union is our destiny!

—Joseph Stalin (Red Alert).

Well, General -- this temporary chaos in Europe will only help to fuel the Brotherhood's cause. For centuries we have waited to emerge from the shadows and now we will make ourselves known. And Cain went out from the presence of The Lord. And took up residence... in the Land of Nod.

—Nadia to Soviet Commander at the end of Soviet campaign (Red Alert).

It's time to hit back... Make it happen.!

—US President Michael Dugan, before the Soviet invasion against the US (Red Alert 2).

Holy Cow! Commander, we got some kind of UFO on the scope! Either it's an alien invasion or Yuri's been watching too much TV!!

—Ben Carville (Yuri's Revenge).

Greetings, commander. You're ready to send those commies running back to their mommies?

—US President Howard T. Ackerman to the Allied commander (Red Alert 3).

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