Whiterose quotes from Mr. Robot

Whiterose

Every hacker has her fixation. You hack people. I hack time.

Whiterose

Fear. How easy a quicksand of time people let that become.

Whiterose

Don't mistake my generosity for generosity.

Whiterose

I have learned to listen when time speaks. Our paths were linked too precisely to this moment for there not to be a reason. This is why. You get to decide.

Whiterose

You've been here close to four hours. And yet you never thought to walk out that door.

Angela Moss

The door was locked.

Whiterose

I've always found doors fascinating inventions. The hold the entry to unlimited imagination. Before you open any door a world filled with possibilities is behind it, and it isn't until you open it that they are realized. Such potential they bring to our minds, and yet a lock stopped you from all of that. How...lazy.

Whiterose

I don't want your proof. I want your belief.

Angela Moss

Belief in what?

Whiterose

[long pause] Do you ever think that if you imagined or believed in something it would come true? Simply by will.

Angela Moss

Yes. Actually I did believe that. But I'm slowly having to admit that's just not the real world. Even if I want it to be.

Whiterose

Well, I guess it all depends on what your definition of real is.

I mean, the guy's a buffoon. He's completely divorced from reality. How would you even control him?

Whiterose

If you pull the right strings, a puppet will dance any way you desire.

Phillip Price

When you surprised me with Five/Nine, I understood your move. A false flag operation, a temporary global crisis to help me pressure the administration into giving you your damn Congo. All went according to plan, which leaves me struggling to find the upside to this. Why come after me?

Whiterose

[pause] Think back on that fateful night. We sat, listening to a young woman playing a lyre. A lawsuit was brewing against my plant. You told me you would...

Phillip Price

[in flashback] Handle that person as we usually do.

Whiterose

[back in present] And yet, your pet project, Angela Moss, was allowed to continue with her lawsuit... which put my plant in jeopardy. Your job was simple: manipulate her, control her. You couldn't, so I had to.

Phillip Price

You little piece of shit.

Whiterose

Do not forget, I installed you as CEO only to protect my plant. You were meant to do what your predecessor couldn't, and look at what happened to him. And now, you will follow every order that I give you, including hiring your own replacement.

Phillip Price

Fuck you!

Whiterose

In the interim, uh, I trust that there will be no interference with my plant being relocated to the Congo.

Phillip Price

[laughs] This- this is funny. That's- that's- that's all this is. This is- this is, uh- this is a joke with a bad punchline.

Whiterose

You will also be called upon to handle all logistical issues: proper access for my staff, shipment of all materials...

Phillip Price

[slams hand on table] No! You give me the real reason, motherfucker. Coming at me now. What in God's name do you hope to gain?

Whiterose

The opportunity to teach a lesson.

Phillip Price

A lesson? You sadistic fuck. You got your U.N. vote; you got your plant; you got everything you wanted! No. You don't get off that easy, not until you explain it to me. You had to destroy so much. Why?

Whiterose

Because Phillip... I had to ask you twice.

Elliot Alderson

You don't want to help the world. You want to destroy it. You want to destroy it because you hate people for what they've done to you, and you can't look past that to actually see the good in it.

Whiterose

Elliot, please. [She laughs] Don't make me laugh. You think I'm the one that wants to destroy the world? I'm the one that hates people? That can't see the good in it? Look around you. Everywhere we turn, all we see is spite from our so-called "fellow man". Every day we turn on the news, we're constantly told by our leaders, our scientists, our religions that our world is crumbling and that we are the problem. We are the root of everything that is wrong, that we don't stand a chance. We are told this so much that self-hatred is no longer considered an anomaly but a given, and yet you dare point the finger at me when I try to bring order to its chaos? When I have sacrificed everything to make it better?! [She stammers, then laughs again] Please! Don't make me laugh. [She keeps laughing, then calms down] On the contrary, it is my love for people that drives me. It always has been, because I know, deep in every person's heart, they are trying to be good. They were just dealt a bad hand by a world that is unfit for us. So please, don't make me fucking laugh and accuse me of hating people when you, Elliot, wear that hate like a badge of honor! Shall I remind you of your group's name? Admit it. Hatred has been your anthem, not mine.

Elliot Alderson

You're right. I hate people. Scared of them. Been scared of them practically my whole life. People I loved... people I trusted... have done their absolute worst to me. And for a long time, that's all I ever knew. So yeah, I called my group fsociety. Because you know what? Fuck society. Society deserves to be hated for everything you said they did, and more. Fuck every last one of them for what we've all been through. But then there are some people out there -- and it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them; they take it. They care about you anyway. They don't abandon you. No matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't. They love me. And for all the pain I've been through, that heals me. Maybe not instantly, maybe not even for a long time, but it heals. And yeah, there are setbacks. We do fucked up things to each other. And we hurt each other. And it gets messy. But that's just us, in any world you're in. And yeah, you're right; we're all told we don't stand a chance and yet, we stand. We break, but we keep going. And that is not a fault! It's what makes us! So, no, I will not give up on this world. And if you can't see why, then I speak for everyone when I say "fuck you"!