Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

Before I could only trust myself. Now I can only trust you. And they have taken you away from me.

Mulder

We wanted.. to believe... we wanted to call out. On August 20th and September 5th, 1977, two spacecraft were launched from the Kennedy Space Flight Center, Florida. They were called Voyager. Each one carries a message ... A gold-plated record depicting images, music and sounds of our planet - Arranged so that it may be understood if ever intercepted by a technologically mature extraterrestrial civilization. Thirteen years after its launch, Voyager I passed the orbital plane of Neptune and, essentially, left the solar system. Within that time, there were no further messages sent. Nor are any planned. ..We wanted to listen. On October 12th, 1992, NASA initiated the High-Resolution Microwave Survey; A decade-long search by radio telescope scanning ten million frequencies for any transmission by extraterrestrial intelligence. Less than one year later first-term Nevada Senator Richard Brian successfully championed an amendment which terminated the project.. I wanted to believe, but the tools had been taken away. The X-Files had been shut down. They closed our eyes.. our voices have been silenced.. our ears now deaf to the realms of extreme possibilities.

Mulder

(Speaking into tape recorder) Deep Throat said "trust no one." And that's hard, Scully. Suspecting everyone, everything, it wears you down. You even begin to doubt what you know is the truth. Before, I could only trust myself. Now, I can only trust you.. and they've taken you away from me.

Mulder

Scientist say three species become extinct everyday. Who knows how many new ones are being created?

Mulder

[in response to some suggestive remarks about Scully] You know, Frohike, it's men like you that give perversion a bad name.

Mulder

Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by the fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.

Mulder

I feel, Scully... that you believe... you're not ready to go. And you've always had the strength of your beliefs. I don't know if my being here... will help bring you back. But I'm here.

Mulder

[voice-over] Scully and I are in the third day of a month-long quarantine, undergoing level 4 decon procedures. We are so far without symptoms of fungal contamination. All our specimens and field notes were confiscated by the military biohazard corps prior to our evacuation. Their presence has delayed for an indefinite period the arrival of the USGS data retrieval team. I suspect, though, that there will be little left for them to retrieve. There are no plans at present to explore further any of the hundreds of volcanically active mountains in the Cascade Range, including Mount Avalon. All access points to that volcano have been sealed off by army engineers.... Of the members of the Firewalker descent team, only Trepkos and O'Neil remain unaccounted for. They are presumed dead, and the search for them has been abandoned. Firewalker, however, was recovered, though its sensory and locomotive systems were found to be irreparably damaged. The data it collected from the earth's interior will never be known. And of the events that occurred at Mount Avalon between the 11th and 13th of November, 1994, mine stands as the only record.

Mulder

You know, for a holy man, you've got quite a knack for pissing people off.

Mulder

I've always figured that dreams are answers to questions we haven't figured out how to ask yet.

Mulder

People videotape police beatings on darkened streets. They manage to spot Elvis in three cities across America every day, but no one saw a pretty woman forced off the road in a rental car.

Mulder

[voiceover] The conquest of fear lies in the moment of its acceptance. And understanding what scares us most is that which is most familiar, most common place... It's been said that the fear of the unknown is an irrational response to the excesses of the imagination. But our fear of the everyday, of the lurking stranger, and the sound of foot-falls on the stairs, the fear of violent death and the primitive impulse to survive, are as frightening as any X-file, as real as the acceptance... that it could happen to you.

Mulder

Did you really think you could call up the Devil and ask him to behave?

Mulder

Private John McAlpin, he was one of the few, the proud... the dead. Last week he wrapped his car around a tree, died on impact.

Fox Mulder

I have lived with a fragile faith built on vague memories from an experience that I could neither prove nor explain. When I was 12, my sister was taken from me, taken from our home by a force that I came to believe was extraterrestrial. This belief sustained me, fueling a quest for truths that were as elusive as the memory itself. To believe as passionately as I did was not without sacrifice, but I always accepted the risks - to my career, my reputation, my relationships, to life itself.