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Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence is an action-adventure game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. It is part of the Castlevania video game series, and is the first installment of the series to be released for the PlayStation 2.

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Konami. Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. Konami Tokyo. PlayStation 2. (in English). (October 21, 2003)

 (Prologue)
 * Narrator: In an era long past, as monarchies weakened, local feudal lords grew in power. The first knights simply protected their lords' domains. However, with the reforms of the late 11th century, knights became the protectors of the peace. They valued courage and honor, fighting heretics and heathens in God's name. In this age, one company of knights was said to be invincible due to two men: Leon Belmont, a courageous man who feared nothing and whose combat abilities were second to none, and Mathias Cronqvist, a genius tactician, whose learning made him an exception in a largely illiterate society. They trusted each other completely, and they were bound by an old friendship. However, sorrow awaited Mathias upon his return from a victorious campaign. It was news of the sudden death of his beloved wife, Elisabetha. Mathias' grief was profound and he became bedridden. A year has passed since then. Thanks to Leon's efforts, their company remains proudly undefeated. However, a mysterious army of monsters suddenly appears in Leon's domain. The Crusades are raging in the East, and since the Church is focusing on fighting heathens rather than monsters, it has forbidden unauthorized battles. Leon wants permission to sortie, but the Church has no intention of granting it. One night, Mathias struggles from his sickbed and tells Leon that the appearance of the monsters is tied to a vampire, who has a castle in the Forest, called Eternal Night, and that Leon's betrothed, Sara, has been kidnapped and brought to that castle. Leon realizes that he must renounce his title to rescue his beloved. The forest is swollen with darkness, as if it would rob away everything, and only moonlight provides a ray of hope. A great legend is about to begin.

 * Leon Belmont: What just happened? I felt something strange.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Ah, he must really like you. You won't be able to leave now.
 * Leon Belmont: Who's there?!
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Now, don't get so excited... I'm just an old man. I just came to gawk at the man crazy enough to come here.
 * Leon Belmont: You don't seem like a monster.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: (laughs) Of course not. What is your name?
 * Leon Belmont: Leon.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Leon... You're not... Baron Leon Belmont?
 * Leon Belmont: Just Leon Belmont. I have given up my title. And you, old man?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Pardon me, Lord Belmont. My name is... Rinaldo Gandolfi.
 * Leon Belmont: You can call me Leon. And I will call you Rinaldo. Don't call me "Lord." We're equals now.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: As you wish. Now, please follow me to my cottage. I want to talk to you.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Wait here a moment. There's something I want to give you.
 * Leon Belmont: Rinaldo, can I ask you something?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: What is it?
 * Leon Belmont: Why are you living in a place like this?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I have unfinished business with Walter Bernhard, the master of this forest.
 * Leon Belmont: Unfinished business?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Not worth mentioning. I owe him...
 * Leon Belmont: Well, I won't ask any more. But... you're not in danger, living so close to him?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: It seems eternal life is extremely boring. He enjoys playing at cat and mouse with the hunters that come here, though, of course, there is no way that he could ever lose... He thinks that my helping hunters makes the game more fun.
 * Leon Belmont: I see... But what do you mean by there being no way he could lose?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Vampires are loved by the night, and this forest is locked in eternal darkness. He has never been defeated.
 * Leon Belmont: Well, that may be so, but I must go ahead and face him.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Did he take someone precious?
 * Leon Belmont: Yes, he abducted my betrothed... How did you know that?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: It's what he always does when he starts the game. You came unarmed. Your courage astonishes me.
 * Leon Belmont: I do have a weapon, just not my sword. That belongs to the Company, and I left it behind when I gave up my title.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: (scoffs) Honest to a fault.
 * Leon Belmont: I heard that many hunters have met their end here. If that's the case, getting weapons shouldn't be hard.

(Rinaldo hands Leon a whip)
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Take this with you. It will help you against monsters.
 * Leon Belmont: (holding the whip) What is this?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: A whip made with alchemy. It's stronger than any dead man's discarded sword.
 * Leon Belmont: Alchemy? I'm not familiar with that word.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Not surprising. The field experiments with the principles of God's creation of the world. The only person who truly understands it is Mathias.
 * Leon Belmont: You know Lord Cronqvist?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I have known him longer than you have. His family has a book of secret arts, originally handed down orally.
 * Leon Belmont: Secret arts? I never knew...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Of course not. Only a handful of people in this world know about it. There are some who consider alchemy to be heresy.
 * Leon Belmont: I see...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Are you one of them?
 * Leon Belmont: No... If you are an acquaintance of Mathias, you are trustworthy. I will use this whip with gratitude.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Put your left hand out.
 * Leon Belmont: My left hand...? Like this?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Don't move now.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: That should do it. You can put it down now.
 * Leon Belmont: (looking at his hand) What was that?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: The gauntlet is enchanted now.
 * Leon Belmont: A spell?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Some enemies' attacks release a special power. If you block them with the gauntlet, you can gather that power.
 * Leon Belmont: What can I do with the gathered power?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: You will be able to use magical relics by releasing that power.
 * Leon Belmont: Magical relics?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Right. Those who excel in magic can use them, I have cast the spell so that you can use them as well. I have some; you should be able to obtain them in the castle as well.
 * Leon Belmont: I understand.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Right now, this is all I can do for you.

 * Leon Belmont: Rinaldo, thank you.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Wait a minute. I forgot to tell you something. The door leading to his throne is guarded by five monsters.
 * Leon Belmont: So I will need to defeat them first.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: That's right. That's essentially the test you must pass to fight him.
 * Leon Belmont: (sighs) What a bothersome--
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I told you before. To him, this is a game.
 * Leon Belmont: I realize that, but...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: If you have troubles, come back here anytime. They won't be free, but I'll keep potions on hand for you.
 * Leon Belmont: Thank you. I appreciate it.

 * Leon Belmont: Sara, wait for me. I'm coming to save you.

 * Medusa: Welcome. I haven't had any visitors in a while.
 * Medusa: With that body, you'll make an excellent statue.
 * Leon Belmont: All those stone statues were...

(Leon sees the hunters who came to challenge Medusa were turned to stone)
 * Medusa: Wonderful sights, weren't they? Don't worry, you'll be joining them soon enough.
 * Leon Belmont: Are you the legendary monster that turns people to stone?
 * Medusa: Monster?! What insolence. I'll grind you to dust!

 * Medusa: (injured breathing) That whip is...
 * Leon Belmont: It's Rinaldo's whip. Apparently, it's effective even on legendary monsters.
 * Medusa: It wasn't so powerful before... Did it gain its complete form?
 * Leon Belmont: Complete form?
 * Medusa: Still, it's no match for my master...

 * Leon Belmont: Rinaldo...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I'm glad you're back. What's the matter? You have an odd look on your face.
 * Leon Belmont: Well, about this whip...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Were there problems with it?
 * Leon Belmont: No, that isn't it. I heard something about it gaining its complete form.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Oh, that. It's true; the whip is not yet complete.
 * Leon Belmont: But it has become more powerful than before...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: That is because of you. I hate to say it, but it seems it fits you better than me.
 * Leon Belmont: Is there a way to complete it?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: It's better for you not to think about that. It's impossible by any normal means...
 * Leon Belmont: But...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: (angrily) Do not think about it! There are other things you must take care of right now.
 * Leon Belmont: (sighs) All right.

 * Leon Belmont: Is someone there? Are you a prisoner here?
 * Joachim Armster: Who are you...?
 * Leon Belmont: My name is Leon. And you are...?
 * Joachim Armster: My name... is Joachim Armster. It's too bad you aren't Walter.
 * Leon Belmont: This feeling... Are you a vampire?!
 * Joachim Armster: That's right, lowly human.
 * Leon Belmont: Why is a vampire locked away here?
 * Joachim Armster: (angrily) Shut up!
 * Joachim Armster: Damn Walter... I would have won, were it not for his Ebony Stone.
 * Leon Belmont: Ebony Stone? What's that?
 * Joachim Armster: If you want to know, beat me.

(swords begin to circle around Joachim)
 * Joachim Armster: It'll be a nice prelude to defeating Walter.
 * Joachim Armster: (pointing at Leon) I'll beat you to a pulp.

 * Joachim Armster: (injured) To think I lost to a human....
 * Leon Belmont: You promised, answer me. What is the Ebony stone?
 * Joachim Armster: A stone made with alchemy... It creates the neverending darkness in this forest.
 * Leon Belmont: Hence, Eternal Night... But the night should help you as well, since you're a vampire.
 * Joachim Armster: That stone chooses its master... My powers pale beside his... Oh, if only I had the Crimson Stone...

 * Leon Belmont: Crimson Stone? He mention alchemy, perhaps Rinaldo should know about this.

 * Leon Belmont: I have a question, Rinaldo.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Don't you always? Ask away.
 * Leon Belmont: The Ebony and Crimson Stones-
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: What about them?
 * Leon Belmont: You knew about them? Why didn't you tell me?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: How would that have changed anything? The night still wouldn't have ended.
 * Leon Belmont: True, but...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Well, I would have told you. I shall tell you now.
 * Leon Belmont: Please.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Have you ever heard of the Philosopher's Stone?
 * Leon Belmont: No, I haven't.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Making the Philosopher's Stone is the ultimate goal of alchemy... It provides eternal youth. The two other stones were apparently created accidentally. No details of how they were made remain now.
 * Leon Belmont: I see... I know about the Ebony Stone. What kind of power does the Crimson Stone have?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I don't know the details. It turns the souls of vampires into power for its master. These two stones are the vampires' greatest treasures.
 * Leon Belmont: Wouldn't the Crimson Stone work for humans as well?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: If all it gave you was power, that might be so...
 * Leon Belmont: What do you mean?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I've heard that it bears the curse of the vampires as well.
 * Leon Belmont: I see... So humanity would be lost.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: There are no greater treasures for those who become vampires.
 * Leon Belmont: And Walter has the Ebony Stone in his possession?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: That seems to be the case. It was supposedly lost along with the Crimson Stone.
 * Leon Belmont: But if the Ebony Stone reappeared, then the Crimson Stone...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: May also have resurfaced... I pray it is not here.

 * Leon Belmont: Sara?!
 * Sara Trantoul: Leon, you came to save me!
 * Leon Belmont: Thank goodness, I'm so glad that you're not hurt!
 * Sara Trantoul: I can't believe you're safe!
 * Leon Belmont: Let's get out of here first.
 * Sara Trantoul: (evilly) Yes.
 * Leon Belmont: Who are you?!
 * Sara Trantoul: Oh my, too bad and I thought this will work so well.
 * Leon Belmont: I was careless, it was obvious that it wouldn't be so easy!
 * Succubus: I was going to let you die without any suffering because I liked the way you looked.
 * Leon Belmont:  Well, that's just too bad.
 * Succubus: Ah, but I've changed my mind, your face warped in pain, just the thought thrills me. Oh, this would be lovely.

 * Succubus: (injured) If I would know this will happen. I wouldn't fought you in the guise of your loved one. Then.... like that old man, you would have...
 * Leon Belmont: Old man? Are you talking about Rinaldo? what do you mean?
 * Succubus: Th-that old man... his own daughter....

 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Ah, you did well to come back.
 * Leon Belmont: Rinaldo, please tell me...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: What is it?
 * Leon Belmont: About your daughter....
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I don't know what you've heard, but you don't need to know anymore.
 * Leon Belmont: Rinaldo, you help me so much, the least I can do for you is listen to your story and support you in your suffering.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Needless meddling.... Very well, I'll tell you. It was five years ago... A cold night with a full moon. I returned home from picking herbs necessary for the secret arts and what greeted me was a sea of steaming blood. And at the center of it were the bodies of my wife and son... I could not believe my eyes... My daughter was there, laughing, blood dripping from her mouth....
 * Leon Belmont: She was turned into a vampire?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: That's right... By Walter... My daughter went out a window without even looking at me. When I recovered, I build the whip with alchemy. Then I searched for her...
 * Leon Belmont: I see. I've heard enough! So this is what you meant when you said you owed him...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I challenged Walter, but nothing came of it. That is why I lived here and help those who wish to fight him.
 * Leon Belmont: I've never would have guessed...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: (angrily) Forget everything I just said. Think only of yourself now. He's not a opponent you can beat while distracted.
 * Leon Belmont: No, you're wrong.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: What do you mean?
 * Leon Belmont: The force of your grief can only make me stronger. Thank you... I am grateful...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Do as you will.

 * Walter Bernhard: Welcome to my castle. Pleased to meet you. I am the master of the castle, Walter Bernhard.
 * Leon Belmont: (pointing at him) Give back Sara!!
 * Walter Bernhard: Do not rush. Your lady is here.
 * Leon Belmont: Sara!! Why? Why won't she answer?
 * Walter Bernhard: It seems the lady is tired. Hmm, it seems you are, too. Rest a while...
 * Leon Belmont: What?!
 * Walter Bernhard: Well... That whip is Rinaldo's, is it?
 * Leon Belmont: It can't be! My attack doesn't work...
 * Walter Bernhard: I see. It's just as that knight said. Very well. You've made it this far. I'll return her as a reward.
 * Leon Belmont: Sara!!
 * Walter Bernhard: I'll be in the throne room on the highest floor. I look forward to you making it there alive.

(Walter walks away as he laughs evilly) (Leon checks Sara if she's all right and finally she wakes up)
 * Sara Trantoul: Leon... Leon, is that you?
 * Leon Belmont: You're awake! Thank goodness... A friend is waiting for us. Let's go see him first.

 * Leon Belmont: Sara, this way.
 * Leon Belmont: Sara!! What's the matter?!
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: What's all this racket?
 * Leon Belmont: Rinaldo! Sara suddenly...!
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Oh, no! You go on inside.
 * Leon Belmont: But...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: There is nothing you can do. Wait quietly inside.
 * Leon Belmont: All right... Please take care of Sara.
 * Leon Belmont: How is Sara doing?!
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: She's sleeping in the back.
 * Leon Belmont: (sigh of relief) What in the world happened?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: The barrier around this house... It responded.
 * Leon Belmont:(scarily) What are you saying? That's... That's not possible.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: There's no use hiding it, so I will tell you plainly. That girl has been tainted by the vampire.
 * Leon Belmont: (angrily) You're lying! That can't be!
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Why would I lie to you? You must accept the truth!
 * Leon Belmont: Please, tell me you're lying.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: She is not a vampire yet, to be precise. She won't even be aware of it... But as time passes, she will gradually lose her humanity. Like my daughter...
 * Leon Belmont: Is there anything I can do?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: The only thing would be to defeat Walter immediately.
 * Leon Belmont: Tell me, is this whip effective against him?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Why do you ask?
 * Leon Belmont: I tried to strike him with it, but it didn't seem to work.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: It is as I thought, then... it didn't even work for you...
 * Leon Belmont: Isn't there another way?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Well, there is, but...
 * Leon Belmont: Tell me! I'll do anything!
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Then let me ask you this. Can you kill that girl?
 * Leon Belmont: (shocked) What are you saying...?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: If you make the whip complete, you can destroy him. But in order to do that, you need a tainted soul-- One that trusts you and one that you can trust...
 * Leon Belmont: I abandoned everything in order to save Sara! I could... I could never do such a thing.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Even knowing she's not human, it's a difficult thing to do. I'm not surprised.
 * Leon Belmont: Is she really... Is Sara really...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: There's no doubt about it. I confirmed the bite mark. The fact that the barrier responded is proof above all else.
 * Leon Belmont: Sara?!
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Did she overhear us just now?!

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 * Leon Belmont: Sara!
 * Sara Trantoul: Please stay away!
 * Leon Belmont: Sara, calm down. Did you... Did you hear us talking? It's okay. Please trust me. I will save you, I will, you'll see.
 * Sara Trantoul: I appreciate how you feel... But I... I have no time left.
 * Leon Belmont: No time...?
 * Sara Trantoul: I can feel it. My heartbeat is weakening and my blood is growing cold... I can feel myself changing into something inhuman... If my soul can save others, then I won't die in vain. I do not want anyone else to suffer my fate.
 * Leon Belmont: Why...
 * Sara Trantoul: Please. If you still love me, please grant me my final wish.
 * Leon Belmont: I cannot...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: You dishonor yourself, Leon. How do you think Sara feels...?!
 * Leon Belmont: I know, Rinaldo! I do know, but...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Leon... All that is needed now is your resolve.
 * Sara Trantoul: Leon... I will be with you...
 * Leon Belmont: Rinaldo. What must I do?
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: So, you've decided. You must enter into a blood covenant with Sara's soul. Focus your spirit on Sara.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: All becomes one in infinity. The tainted soul joins his. Undesired and cursed soul, His blood accepts your hatred. For the power to slay your kind. Now! Use the whip against Sara!
 * Leon Belmont: I swear to you! No more will suffer your fate!
 * Sara Trantoul: (gasp) Thank you, Leon...
 * Leon Belmont: Sara...! SARAAAAAAA!
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: That was one of the forbidden secrets described in the book belonging to Mathias's family. Now, that whip has become the bane of the children of the night.
 * Leon Belmont: Yes, I can tell... The power of hatred and destruction that the whip has against vampires...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I'm sorry, Leon.
 * Leon Belmont: It couldn't be helped... It is no one's fault... It was what Sara wanted...
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: Are you going already...?
 * Leon Belmont: Yes. I must keep the promise I made to Sara.
 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: I see... Come back again anytime. I can be of some help to you.

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 * Walter Bernhard: Welcome. I have been waiting, Leon.
 * Leon Belmont: Walter... I will never forgive you.
 * Walter Bernhard: I see... It seems you have enjoyed the gift that I gave you.
 * Leon Belmont: (growls) Yes, thanks to that, I now have the power to defeat you.
 * Walter Bernhard: Well, that power- is quite something. But I am beloved by the night. You will taste my powers.
 * Leon Belmont: I'LL KILL YOU AND THE NIGHT!
 * Walter Bernhard: Interesting... Now, the curtain rises on this delightful little game.

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 * Walter Bernhard: WHAT?!
 * Leon Belmont: Now, there is nothing left to protect you! I'LL FULFILL MY PROMISE TO SARA NOW!
 * Walter Bernhard: Not yet... The power of the night is still full. I SHALL TEACH YOU THE MEANING OF TRUE TERROR!

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 * Walter Bernhard: (injured) It can't be... This should not have happened...
 * Leon Belmont: Sara's suffering... and Rinaldo's grief... Carve them into your cursed body and perish!

(Walter begins to die)
 * Walter Bernhard: But... With my powers, I will surely come back to life... I could not obtain the Crimson Stone, but someday, it will be mine!
 * Walter Bernhard: NO! YOU BETRAYED ME?!
 * Death: I SHALL TAKE YOUR SOUL!
 * Walter Bernhard: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
 * Death: This power... I offer to the king who wields the Crimson Stone!

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 * Mathias Cronqvist:(breath of relief) Excellent, I've never spent a better night.
 * Leon Belmont:(shocked) Mathias?!.
 * Mathias Cronqvist: You didn't disappoint me Leon, I knew without a doubt that you would accomplish this.
 * Leon Belmont: What is the meaning of this?
 * Mathias Cronqvist: I needed a powerful vampire's soul. That is all.
 * Leon Belmont: Are you saying you used me?
 * Mathias Cronqvist: Not just you, your betrothed Sara, Rinaldo, and Walter. I used all of you.
 * Mathias Cronqvist: I never thought that it will go so well, though.
 * Leon Belmont:(pointing at the Crimson Stone) Is that, that stone... the Crimson Stone?!
 * Mathias Cronqvist: Ah, you know it? I'm impressed. I made Walter's soul mine with the power of this stone.
 * Leon Belmont: I sensed a rage from this whip. Mathias! You abandoned humanity?!
 * Mathias Cronqvist: That's right, by becoming a vampire, I obtained eternal life. That was my goal. It was my revenge against God!
 * Leon Belmont:(shocked) Revenge against God?!
 * Mathias Cronqvist: We have risked our lives and fought for the sake of God... But God, mercilessly stole away the one I loved most. When all I ever wish for was Elisabetha's safety!! If limited life is God's decree then I shall defy it!! And within that eternity, I shall curse him forevermore!
 * Leon Belmont: (sighs sadly) Mathias...
 * Mathias Cronqvist: Leon, after what you've been through, you should know...
 * Leon Belmont: Yes, you're right. I do understand how you feel... I, too...
 * Mathias Cronqvist: Then come with me. I will give you eternity, too.
 * Leon Belmont: You wretched fool.
 * Mathias Cronqvist: What?!
 * Leon Belmont: Is this what the woman you loved would have wanted? The Mathias I know would not have loved such a woman.
 * Mathias Cronqvist: Elisabetha was a kind, honorable woman. She was concerned only for me to the very end... That is why I hate Him! Am I wrong?! Did you not defeat Walter with hatred in your heart, too?
 * Leon Belmont: Yes. I'd be lying if I claimed otherwise. But defeating him... No, preventing others from suffering the same cursed fate... That was Sara's dying wish... Granting my beloved's wish. That is all I can do to prove my love to Sara. Eternity without her would be nothing but emptiness.
 * Mathias Cronqvist: Leon... I though that you would understand... Dawn is coming... Farewell, Leon. Death, he's all yours.
 * Leon Belmont: Stop!
 * Leon Belmont: No!
 * Death: By my master's orders, YOU'LL BE DESTROYED HERE AND NOW!

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 * Death: To think that I would be...
 * Leon Belmont: I have the power to destroy all related to the vampires. Though you have divine powers, you are no exception.
 * Death: Unfortunately for you, as long as my master survives, I will rise from the dead...
 * Leon Belmont: I see. Give him this message: You have become a cursed being and I will never forgive you. This whip and my kinsmen will destroy you someday. From this day on, the Belmont Clan will hunt the night.

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 * Rinaldo Gandolfi: (sees the sun rising in the sky) So, he did it.

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 * Narrator: And so the story of the Belmont Clan's struggle against evil begins. However, Mathias and the Belmonts will not meet again for hundreds of years. Mathias goes into hiding in foreign lands and continues to curse God for eternity. Eventually, he names himself Lord of the Vampires, King of the Night. The years before their next meeting pass slowly and quietly, but with finality: the intermission in this exquisite play from which two souls will never escape.

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User talk:Khellamendra

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User talk:Pellis1715

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Jacob Smith
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User talk:Normlman

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User talk:Snow Phoenix~enwikiquote

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User talk:Glencampbell

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Portal (game)

 * This article includes quotes from the video game Portal. For portals inside Wikiquote, see Portal.

Portal is a first-person action/puzzle video game that was released as part of The Orange Box in October 2007. The game consists primarily of a series of physics puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the human test subject and other simple objects using the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (dubbed the "Portal Gun"), a machine that can create an inter-spatial portal between the flat planes of solid objects. The player character is challenged by an AI named "GLaDOS" ( G enetic L ifeform a nd D isk O perating S ystem) to complete each puzzle in the labyrinthine "Aperture Science Enrichment Center" using the Portal Gun, with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed.

Test Chambers 00/01

 * Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper. Before we start, however, keep in mind that, although fun and learning are the primary goals of all enrichment center activities, serious injuries may occur. For your own safety, and the safety of others, please refrain from — *static* Por favor bordón de fallar Muchos gracias de fallar gracias *static* Stand back. The portal will open in 3, 2, 1...

 * Excellent. Please proceed into the chamberlock after completing each test. First, however, note the incandescent particle field across the exit. This Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill will vaporize any unauthorized equipment that passes through it - for instance, the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube.

 * [moving on] Please place the Weighted Storage Cube on the 1500MW Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button.

 * Perfect. Please move quickly to the chamberlock, as the effects of prolonged exposure to the Button are not part of this test.

 * [If the player emancipates the cube while the door is open] Please do not attempt to remove testing apparatus from the testing area. A replacement Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube will be delivered shortly.

Test Chambers 02/03

 * You're doing very well. Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.

 * Very good. You are now in possession of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. With it, you can create your own portals. These intra-dimensional gates have proven to be completely safe. The device, however, has not. Do not touch the operational end of The Device. Do not look directly at the operational end of The Device. Do not submerge The Device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances, should you- *static*.

 * [moving on] Please proceed to the chamberlock. Mind the gap.

 * Well done. Remember, the Aperture Science Bring Your Daughter to Work Day is the perfect time to have her tested.

Test Chambers 04/05

 * Welcome to Test Chamber 04, you're doing quite well.

 * Once again, excellent work. As part of a required test protocol, we will not monitor the next test chamber - you will be entirely on your own. Good luck!

 * [If the player manages to trap themselves] You're not a good person. You know that, right?

 * As part of a required test protocol, our previous statement suggesting that we would not monitor this chamber was an outright fabrication. Good job. As part of a required test protocol, we will stop enhancing the truth in 3... 2... 1*static*.

Test Chambers 06/07

 * While safety is one of many Enrichment Center Goals, the Aperture Science High Energy Pellet, seen to the left of the chamber, can and has caused permanent disabilities, such as vaporization. Please be careful.
 * [once Pellet has been caught] Unbelievable! You, [subject name here], must be the pride of [subject hometown here]!

 * [moving on] Warning devices are required on all mobile equipment. However, alarms and flashing hazard lights have been found to agitate the high energy pellet, and have therefore been disabled for your safety.
 * [once Pellet has been caught] Good. Now use the Aperture Science Unstationary Scaffold to reach the chamberlock.

Test Chamber 08

 * Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an "unsatisfactory" mark on your official testing record, followed by death. Good luck!

 * [after Chell completes test chamber] Very impressive. Please note that any appearance of danger is merely a device to enhance your testing experience.

Test Chamber 09

 * The Enrichment Center regrets to inform you that this next test is impossible. Make no attempt to solve it.

 * [after Chell completes test chamber] Fantastic. You remained resolute and resourceful in an atmosphere of extreme pessimism.

 * [during the escape later in the game] Okay. The test is over now. You win. Go back to the recovery annex. For your cake. It was a fun test and we're all impressed at how much you won. The test is over. Come back.

Test Chamber 10

 * Hello again. To reiterate [slows down] our previous [speeds up] warning: This test [garbles] ...ward momentum.
 * Spectacular. You appear to understand how a portal affects forward momentum, or to be more precise, how it does not.
 * Momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In layman's terms: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

Test Chambers 11/12

 * The Enrichment Center promises to always provide a safe testing environment. In dangerous testing environments the Enrichment Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you - try to avoid it.

 * The device has been modified so that it can now manufacture two linked portals at once. As part of an optional test protocol, we are pleased to present an amusing fact: The device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in [subject hometown here].

 * [If player traps themselves in the pellet launcher area] Through no fault of the Enrichment Center, you have managed to trap yourself in this room. An escape hatch will open in 3... 2... 1.

 * [moving on] Get (garble) fling yourself. (garble) Fling into sp-[static]
 * Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-bzzt

Test Chamber 13

 * Now that you are in control of both portals, this next test could take a very, very, long time. If you become light-headed from thirst, feel free to pass out. An intubation associate will be dispatched to revive you with peptic salve and adrenaline.

 * [If the player manages to trap themselves] Despite the best efforts of the Enrichment Center staff to ensure the safe performance of all authorized activities, you have managed to ensnare yourself permanently inside this room. A complimentary escape hatch will open in 3... 2... 1.

 * As part of a previously mentioned required test protocol, we can no longer lie to you. When the testing is over, you will be... Missed.

Test Chamber 14

 * All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided, and you are an excellent test subject!

 * [once Pellet has been caught] Very very good. A complimentary victory lift has been activated in the main chamber.

Test Chamber 15

 * The Enrichment Center is committed to the well-being of all participants. Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test. Thank you for helping us help you help us all.

 * [If player traps themselves in the pellet catcher area] Through no fault of the Enrichment Center, you have managed to trap yourself in this room. An escape hatch will open in 3... 2... 1.

 * Did you know you can donate one or all of your vital organs to the Aperture Science Self-Esteem Fund for Girls? It's true!

Test Chamber 16

 * Due to mandatory scheduled maintenance, the appropriate chamber for this testing sequence is currently unavailable. It has been replaced with a live-fire course designed for military androids. The Enrichment Center apologizes for the inconvenience and wishes you the best of luck.

 * Well done, android. The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance.

Test Chamber 17

 * The Vital Apparatus Vent will deliver a Weighted Companion Cube in 3, 2, 1...
 * This Weighted Companion Cube will accompany you through (most of) the test chamber. Please take care of it.

 * The symptoms most commonly produced by Enrichment Center testing are superstition, perceiving inanimate objects as alive, and hallucinations. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.
 * [once second pellet has been caught] The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube cannot speak. In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.

 * [once the last button has been activated] You did it! The Weighted Companion Cube certainly brought you good luck. However, it cannot accompany you for the rest of the test and, unfortunately, must be euthanized. Please escort your Companion Cube to the Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator.
 * [once the cube has been incinerated] You euthanized your faithful Companion Cube more quickly than any test subject on record. Congratulations. [If this is done for the first time, an achievement titled “Fratricide” (described as “Do whatever it takes to survive.”) is unlocked at the same time.]

Test Chamber 18

 * The experiment is nearing its conclusion. The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake.

 * [If player traps themselves in the pellet catcher area] Despite the best efforts of the Enrichment Center staff to ensure the safe performance of all authorized activities, you have managed to ensnare yourself permanently inside this room. A complimentary escape hatch will open in 3... 2... 1.

 * [If player loses a cube in the goo at the bottom] Weighted Storage Cube destroyed. Please proceed to the Aperture Science Vital Apparatus Vent for a replacement. [Vital Apparatus vent opens]

 * Well done! Be advised that the next test requires exposure to uninsulated electrical parts that may be dangerous under certain conditions. For more information, please attend an (Aperture Science computer-aided) Enrichment Center Electrical Safety seminar.

Test Chamber 19

 * Welcome to the final test. When you are done, you will drop the device in the Equipment Recovery Annex - Enrichment Center regulations require both hands to be empty before any cake (garbled speech)

 * Congratulations. The test is now over. All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees [sic] Kelvin. [The player's platform slows down and is lowered into a fire pit] Rest assured that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence. Thank you for participating in this Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment activity. Goodbye.

Maintenance Areas

 * What are you doing? Stop it! I... I-I... IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII... We are pleased that you made it through the final challenge where we pretended we were going to murder you. We are very, very happy for your success. We are throwing a party in honour of your tremendous success. Place the device on the ground, then lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party. Make no further attempt to leave the testing area. Assume the party escort submission position or you will miss the party.

 * Hello? Where are you? I know you're there, I can feel you here. Hello?

 * What are you doing? You haven't escaped, you know. You're not even going the right way. Hello? Is anyone there?

 * Uh-oh, somebody cut the cake. I told them to wait for you, but they cut it anyway. There is still some left, though, if you hurry back.

 * You're not even going the right way. Where do you think you're going? Because I don't think you're going where you think you're going. Hello?

 * Didn't we have some fun, though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said “Goodbye”, and you were like, [deep voice: “No way!”] And then I was all, “We pretended we were going to murder you.”? That was great. Is anyone there?

 * You really shouldn't be here. This isn't safe for you. It's not too late for you to turn back. I'm not angry. Just go back to the testing area.

 * (I feel sorry for you, really, because you're not even in the right place.) You should have turned left before. It's funny, actually, when you think about it. Someday we'll remember this and laugh... and laugh... and laugh. Oh boy. Well, you may as well come on back.

 * You're not a good person. You know that, right? Good people don't end up here. Can you hear me?

 * This is your fault. It didn't have to be like this. I'm not kidding now. Turn back or I will kill you. I'm going to kill you, and all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do you? This is your last chance.

Central AI Chamber

 * [During these quotes, the screens behind GlaDOS, show images that sometimes match with what is said.] [Upon entering the Main Hall] Well you found me. Congratulations. Was it worth it? Because despite your violent behaviour, the only thing you've managed to break so far, is my heart. Maybe you could settle for that and we'll just call it a day. I guess we both know that isn't going to happen. You chose this path. Now I have a surprise for you. Deploying surprise in five, four… [morality core drops to the ground] Time out for a second. That wasn't supposed to happen. Do you see that thing that fell out of me? What is that? It's not the surprise… I've never seen it before. Never mind. It's a mystery I'll solve later… By myself… Because you'll be dead.

 * [After picking up the morality core] Where are you taking that thing? [nagging at the morality core] I wouldn't bother with that thing. My guess is that touching it will just make your life even worse somehow. I don't want to tell you your business, but if it were me, I'd leave that thing alone. Do you think I am trying to trick you with reverse psychology? I mean, seriously now. Okay fine: do touch it. Pick it up and just... stuff it back into me. Let's be honest: Neither one of us knows what that thing does. Just put it in the corner, and I'll deal with it later. That thing is probably some kind of raw sewage container. Go ahead and rub your face all over it. Maybe you should marry that thing, since you love it so much. Do you want to marry it? Well I won't let you. How does that feel? Have I lied to you? I mean in this room. Trust me, leave that thing alone. I am being serious now. That crazy thing is not part of any test protocol. Just ignore that thing and stand still. Think about it: If that thing is important, why don't I know about it? Are you even listening to me? I'll tell you what that thing isn't: It isn't yours. So leave it alone.

 * [After burning the morality core] You are kidding me. Did you just stuff that Aperture Science Thing We Don't Know What It Does into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator? That has got to be the dumbest thing that … whoa. Whoa, whoa … [Cackles, voice changes] Good news: I figured out what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, to make me stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters. [Neurotoxin emitters, timer and rocket turret all activate simultaneously] Huh. That core may have had some ancillary responsibilities. I can't shut off the turret defenses. Oh well. If you want my advice, you should just lie down in front of a rocket. Trust me, it'll be a lot less painful than the neurotoxin. All right, keep doing whatever it is you think you're doing. Killing you and giving you good advice aren't mutually exclusive. The rocket really is the way to go.

 * [After burning the curiosity core] Oh, you think you're doing some damage? 2 + 2 = [static] … 10. In base four! I'm fine! I let you survive this long because I was curious about your behavior. Well, you've managed to destroy that part of me. Unfortunately, as much as I'd love to now, I can't get the neurotoxin into your head any faster.

 * I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportunity to succeed. There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend, the Companion Cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends, because of how unlikeable you are. It says so here in your personnel file: unlikeable, liked by no one, a bitter, unlikeable loner, whose passing shall not be mourned. “Shall not be mourned”, that's exactly what it says; very formal, very official. It also says you were adopted, so that's funny too.

 * Speaking of curiosity, you're curious about what happens after you die, right? Guess what: I know. You're going to find out first hand before I finish explaining it, though, so I won't bother. Here's a hint: you're gonna want to pack as much living as you can into the next couple of minutes.

 * [After burning the intelligence core]  Neurotoxin… [coughing] So deadly… [coughing again] Ch-choking… [deep laughter] I'm kidding! When I said “deadly neurotoxin”, the “deadly” was in massive sarcasm quotes. I could take a bath in the stuff, put it on cereal, rub it right into my eyes. Honestly, it's not deadly at all… to me. You, on the other hand, are going to find its deadliness a lot less funny.

 * Who's gonna make the cake when I'm gone? You? Look, you're wasting your time. And, believe me, you don't have a whole lot left to waste. What's your point, anyway? Survival? Well then, the last thing you want to do is hurt me. I have your brain scanned and permanently backed up in case something terrible happens to you – which it's just about to. Don't believe me? Here, I'll put you on: [silly voice: “Hellooo!”] That's you! That's how dumb you sound! You've been wrong about every single thing you've ever done, including this thing. You're not smart. You're not a scientist. You're not a doctor. You're not even a full-time employee. Where did your life go so wrong?

 * Are you trying to escape? [silly chuckle] Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here. I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I'm not sure what's going on outside. All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us and them. Well, I was. Unless you have a plan for building some supercomputer parts in a big hurry, this place isn't going to be safe much longer. Good job on that, by the way. [normal voice comes back] [beep] Sarcasm Sphere Self Test complete. [beep] Stop squirming and die like an adult or I'm going to delete your backup. Stop! Okay, enough. I deleted it. No matter what happens now, you're dead. You're still shuffling around a little, but believe me you're dead. The part of you that could have survived indefinitely is gone. I just struck you from the permanent record. Your entire life has been a mathematical error. A mathematical error I'm about to correct.

 * [The following automatically plays or repeats after the respective speech for every destroyed core.] That thing you burned up isn't important to me. It's the fluid catalytic cracking unit. It made shoes for orphans. Nice job breaking it, hero. [wait] This isn't brave. It's murder. What did I ever do to you? The difference between us is that I can feel pain. You don't even care, do you? [wait] Did you hear me? I said you don't care. Are you listening? [wait] That's it. I'm done reasoning with you. Starting now, there's going to be a lot less conversation and a lot more killing. [wait] What was that? Did you say something? I sincerely hope you weren't expecting a response. Because I'm not talking to you. The talking is over.

Intelligence Core
One 18.25-ounce package chocolate cake mix. 1 can prepared coconut pecan frosting. 3⁄4 cup vegetable oil. 4 large eggs. 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips. 3⁄4 cup butter or margarine. 1 2⁄3 cups granulated sugar. 2 cups all-purpose flour. Don't forget garnishes such as fish shaped crackers, fish shaped candies, fish shaped solid waste, fish shaped dirt, fish shaped ethyl benzene, pull and peel licorice, fish shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment shaped sediment (and) candy coated peanut butter pieces - shaped like fish. 1 cup lemon juice. Alpha resins. Unsaturated polyester resin. Fiberglass surface resins. And volatile malted milk impoundments. 9 large egg yolks. 12 medium geosynthetic membranes. 1 cup granulated sugar. An entry called ‘how to kill someone with your bare hands’. 2 cups rhubarb, sliced. 2⁄3 cup granulated rhubarb. 1 tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb. 1 teaspoon grated orange rhubarb. 3 tablespoons rhubarb, on fire. 1 large rhubarb. 1 cross borehole electro-magnetic imaging rhubarb. 2 tablespoons rhubarb juice. Adjustable aluminum head positioner. Slaughter electric needle injector. Cordless electric needle injector. Injector needle driver. Injector needle gun. Cranial caps. And it contains proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and odor control chemicals. That will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue.

(This recipe turns out to be the recipe for the cake)

Wall graffiti

 * In the later stages of the game, the player comes across graffiti written by Doug Rattmann, a scientist who survived the initial wave of personnel killings.

 * The cake is a lie

The Reaper came today An angel visited this gray path And took the cube away.
 * Not in cruelty, not in wrath
 * Parody of "The Reaper and the Flowers" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He kindly stopped for me; The cube had food and maybe ammo. And immortality.
 * Because I could not stop for Death,
 * Parody of "Because I could not stop for Death —" by Emily Dickinson

"Still Alive"

 * (words and music by Jonathan Coulton)

 * This was a triumph.
 * I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
 * It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
 * Aperture Science
 * We do what we must because we can.
 * For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.

 * But there's no sense crying over every mistake
 * You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
 * And the Science gets done and you make a neat gun
 * For the people who are still alive.

 * I'm not even angry.
 * I'm being so sincere right now.
 * Even though you broke my heart and killed me.
 * And tore me to pieces
 * And threw every piece into a fire.
 * As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!

 * Now these points of data make a beautiful line
 * And we're out of beta we're releasing on time
 * So I'm GLaD I got burned, think of all the things we learned
 * With the people who are still alive.

 * Go ahead and leave me.
 * I think I prefer to stay inside.
 * Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
 * Maybe Black Mesa...
 * THAT WAS A JOKE. HA HA. FAT CHANCE.
 * Anyway, this cake is great; it's so delicious and moist.

 * Look at me still talking when there's Science to do
 * When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you
 * I've experiments to run, there is research to be done
 * On the people who are still alive.

 * And believe me I am still alive.
 * I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
 * I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive.
 * While you're dying I'll be still alive.
 * And when you're dead I will be still alive.
 * STILL ALIVE
 * STILL ALIVE.

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 2 September 1949) is an Austrian school economist, an anarcho-capitalist philosopher, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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 * According to the pronouncements of our state rulers and their intellectual bodyguards (of whom there are more than ever before), we are better protected and more secure than ever. We are supposedly protected from global warming and cooling, from the extinction of animals and plants, from the abuses of husbands and wives, parents and employers, from poverty, disease, disaster, ignorance, prejudice, racism, sexism, homophobia, and countless other public enemies and dangers. In fact, however, matters are strikingly different. In order to provide us with all this protection, the state managers expropriate more than 40 percent of the incomes of private producers year in and year out. Government debt and liabilities have increased without interruption, thus increasing the need for future expropriations. Owing to the substitution of government paper money for gold, financial insecurity has increased sharply, and we are continually robbed through currency depreciation. Every detail of private life, property, trade, and contract is regulated by ever higher mountains of laws legislation), thereby creating permanent legal uncertainty and moral hazard. In particular, we have been gradually stripped of the right to exclusion implied in the very concept of private property. … In short, the more the state has increased its expenditures on social security and public safety, the more our private property rights have been eroded, the more our property has been expropriated, confiscated, destroyed, or depreciated, and the more we have been deprived of the very foundation of all protection: economic independence, financial strength, and personal wealth.
 * "The Private Production of Defense" (15 June 1999)

 * If no one can appeal to justice except to government, justice will be perverted in favor of the government, constitutions and supreme courts notwithstanding. Constitutions and supreme courts are state constitutions and agencies, and whatever limitations to state action they might contain or find is invariably decided by agents of the very institution under consideration. Predictably, the definition of property and protection will continually be altered and the range of jurisdiction expanded to the government’s advantage until, ultimately, the notion of universal and immutable human rights – and in particular property rights – will disappear and be replaced by that of law as government-made legislation and rights as government-given grants.
 * "Rothbardian Ethics" (20 May 2002)

 * We must promote the idea of secession. Or more specifically, we must promote the idea of a world composed of tens of thousands of distinct districts, regions, and cantons, and hundred of thousands of independent free cities such as the present day oddities of Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Greatly increased opportunities for economically motivated migration would thus result, and the world would be one of small [classically] liberal governments economically integrated through free trade and an international commodity money such as gold.
 * Interview at quebecoislibre.org (7 December 2002).

 * Freiheit statt Demokratie!
 * Liberty instead of Democracy!
 * Interview in  Junge Freiheit (24 June 2005)

 * The monopolization of money and banking is the ultimate pillar on which the modern state rests. In fact, it is probably become the most cherished instrument for increasing state income. For nowhere else can the state make the connection between redistribution-expenditure and exploitation-return more directly, quickly, and securely than by monopolizing money and banking. And nowhere else are the state's schemes less clearly understood than here.
 * "Banking, Nation States, and International Politics", Mises Institute, (20 July 2005)

 * History is ultimately determined by ideas, and ideas can, at least in principle, change almost instantly. But in order for ideas to change it is not sufficient for people to see that something is wrong. At least a significant number must also be intelligent enough to recognize what it is that is wrong. That is, they must understand the basic principles upon which society — human cooperation — rests … And they must have sufficient will power to act according to this insight.
 * "The Rise and Fall of the City" (23 November 2005) at the Ludwig von Mises Institute

 * In every society, a few individuals acquire the status of an elite through talent. Due to superior achievements of wealth, wisdom, and bravery, these individuals come to possess natural authority, and their opinions and judgments enjoy wide-spread respect. Moreover, because of selective mating, marriage, and the laws of civil and genetic inheritance, positions of natural authority are likely to be passed on within a few noble families. It is to the heads of these families with long-established records of superior achievement, farsightedness, and exemplary personal conduct that men turn to with their conflicts and complaints against each other. These leaders of the natural elite act as judges and peacemakers, often free of charge out of a sense of duty expected of a person of authority or out of concern for civil justice as a privately produced "public good."
 * Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State (21 July 2006)

 * Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.
 * "Reflections on State and War" (2 December 2006)

 * As soon as a crisis breaks out, within the given institutional framework, the same mistake will be made over and over again, on a larger and larger scale. Every future crisis will be bigger than the crisis that we had before.
 * 10:55. "Economic Crisis: How to Cause Them and How to Make Them Worse by 'Curing' Them." - Hoppe - Part 4, Youtube, (3 May 2011)

 * Predictably, under democratic conditions the tendency of every monopoly - to increase prices and decrease quality - will be only more pronounced. Instead of a prince who regards the country as his private property, a temporary caretaker is put in charge of the country. He does not own the country, but as long as he is in office he is permitted to use it to his and his proteges’ advantage. He owns its current use - usufruct - but not its capital stock. This will not eliminate exploitation. To the contrary, it will make exploitation less calculating and carried out with little or no regard to the capital stock, i.e., short-sighted. Moreover, the perversion of justice will proceed even faster now. Instead of protecting pre-existing private property rights, democratic government becomes a machine for the redistribution of existing property rights in the name of illusory `social security.’
 * "The Future of Liberalism - A Plea For A New Radicalism"

 * The American model – democracy – must be regarded as a historical error, economically as well as morally. Democracy promotes shortsightedness, capital waste, irresponsibility, and moral relativism. It leads to permanent compulsory income and wealth redistribution and legal uncertainty. It is counterproductive. It promotes demagoguery and egalitarianism. It is aggressive and potentially totalitarian internally, vis-à-vis its own population, as well as externally. In sum, it leads to a dramatic growth of state power, as manifested by the amount of parasitically – by means of taxation and expropriation – appropriated government income and wealth in relation to the amount of productively – through market exchange – acquired private income and wealth, and by the range and invasiveness of state legislation. Democracy is doomed to collapse, just as Soviet communism was doomed to collapse.
 * Demokratie. Der Gott, Der Keiner Ist, LewRockwell.com (November 12, 2001)

 * The answer is a program of nationalist capitalism, or capitalistic nationalism. Like Francis' national socialism, the national capitalist program has an economic and a cultural component. The similarities of both programs lie in their cultural components. Both are proponents of cultural conservatism and traditional family-centered morality; both are decidedly Western and propose that America was - and should be - a white European Christian male dominated civilization, and hence both oppose all multi-counter-cultural-egalitarian measures and policies. Both programs differ fundamentally, however, regarding the economic policies which they would combine with this cultural conservatism. National socialism would combine its cultural conservatism with the economic politics of the left. But as was explained, these two programmatic elements are incompatible and cannot be successfully combined. In distinct contrast, national capitalism hies to combine cultural conservatism with traditional American laissez-faire capitalism as proposed by old-fashioned 'Austrian' school economists from Bob-Bawerk to Mises and Rothbard - the mortal enemies of the socialists of all stripes from Marx on up to his present social-democratic-liberal-neoconservative followers. In so doing, the national capitalist program has from the outset the distinctive advantage of combining what can - and indeed must - be combined if one wishes to reach one's set goal.
 * From Nation to Household (1996)

 * The recognition that traditional family-based moral and the existing welfare institutions are incompatible is one of the cornerstones of the national capitalist program. If one wants to restore traditional morals, then the entire structure of social security schemes must be dismantled, root and branch. The current internationalist-countercultural ideological superstructure is largely the result of the successive destruction of the economic substructure of private households - and household economics and family welfare - by compulsory ‘social’ economics and welfare. If one wants to get rid of the countercultural superstructure, first and foremost its economic basis - the socialist core institutions - must be eliminated, and households and families must be restored to their traditional economic function.
 * From Nation to Household (1996)

 * The authority to admit or exclude anyone from any territory should be stripped from the hands of the central government and re-assigned to the states, counties, cities, towns, villages, residential districts, and ultimately to the owners of private households and their voluntary associations. One would be well on the way toward this goal of restoring freedom of association and exclusion as it is implied in the idea and institution of private property and households, if towns and villages could again do what they did as a matter of course until well into the 19th century in the U. S. : to post signs regarding entrance requirements to the town, and, once in town, requirements for entering specific pieces of property (no beggars, bums, homeless, but also no Moslems, Jews, Catholics, Blacks, Chinese., Mexicans, etc.), and to kick out those who do not fulfill these requirements as trespassers.
 * From Nation to Household (1996)

 * Even a professed "revisionist" such as Ebeling cannot free himself entirely from orthodox-leftist historical myths when he appears to liken and classify as on a par the "evils" of Stalin and Hitler and the socioeconomic character of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. From 1929 to 1939, in peace time, Stalin and the Bolsheviks killed about 20 million Soviet citizens, for no predictable reason. Hitler and the National Socialists ruined the businesses and careers of hundreds of thousands of German citizens, but the number of people killed by them before the outbreak of the war was only a few hundred, most of them fellow Nazis and all of them for a predictable reason.
 * Review of The Failure of America's Wars

 * Germany had lost a devastating war, and the German population was subjected to a systematic, American-led reeducation campaign, a Charakterwaesche (character-wash), as I was to realize only many years later, of truly enormous proportions, which involved a complete rewriting of history from the victor’s viewpoint, essentially portraying Germans as congenital villains.
 * Hoppe: The In-Depth Interview, Mises Institute, 2020

 * Not only is this close correlation between democracy and dictatorship troublesome for democratic-peace theorists; worse, they must come to grips with the fact that the dictatorships emerging from crises of democracy are by no means always worse, from a classical liberal or libertarian view, than what would have resulted otherwise. Cases can be easily cited where dictatorships were preferable and an improvement. Think of Italy and Mussolini or Spain and Franco.
 * The Paradox of Imperialism (2013)

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (1989)

 * Essentially, economic analysis consists of: (1) an understanding of the categories of action and an understanding of the meaning of a change in values, costs, technological knowledge, etc.; (2) a description of a situation in which these categories assume concrete meaning, where definite people are identified as actors with definite objects specified as their means of action, with definite goals identified as values and definite things specified as costs; and (3) a deduction of the consequences that result from the performance of some specified action in this situation, or of the consequences that result for an actor if this situation is changed in a specified way. And this deduction must yield a priori-valid conclusions, provided there is no flaw in the very process of deduction and the situation and the change introduced into it being given, and a priori—valid conclusions about reality if the situation and situation—change, as described, can themselves be identified as real, because then their validity would ultimately go back to the indisputable validity of the categories of action.
 * A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics (Kluwer: 1989): 118-19.

Democracy: The God That Failed (2001)

 * As for the moral status of majority rule, it must be pointed out that it allows for A and B to band together to rip off C, C and A in turn joining to rip off B, and then B and C conspiring against A, and so on.
 * Democracy - The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (Transaction: 2001): 104.

 * ...bums and inferior people will likely support his egalitarian policies, whereas geniuses and superior people will not. For [this] reason...a democratic ruler undertakes little to actively expel those people whose presence within the country constitutes a negative externality (human trash which drives individual property values down).
 * P.145

 * A member of the human race who is completely incapable of understanding the higher productivity of labor performed under a division of labor based on private property is not properly speaking a person… but falls instead into the same moral category as an animal – of either the harmless sort (to be domesticated and employed as a producer or consumer good, or to be enjoyed as a “free good”) or the wild and dangerous one (to be fought as a pest). On the other hand, there are members of the human species who are capable of understanding the [value of the division of labor] but...who knowingly act wrongly… [B]esides having to be tamed or even physically defeated [they] must also be punished… to make them understand the nature of their wrongdoings and hopefully teach them a lesson for the future.
 * P.173

 * Families, authority, communities, and social ranks are the empirical-sociological concretization of the abstract philosophical-praxeological categories and concepts of property, production, exchange, and contract. Property and property relations do not exist apart from families and kinship relations.
 * P.203

 * Private property capitalism and egalitarian multiculturalism are as unlikely a combination as socialism and cultural conservatism. And in trying to combine what cannot be combined, much of the modern libertarian movement actually contributed to the further erosion of private property rights (just as much of contemporary conservatism contributed to the erosion of families and traditional morals). What the countercultural libertarians failed to recognize, and what true libertarians cannot emphasize enough, is that the restoration of private property rights and laissez-faire economics implies a sharp and drastic increase in social “discrimination” and will swiftly eliminate most if not all of the multicultural-egalitarian life style experiments so close to the heart of left libertarians. In other words, libertarians must be radical and uncompromising conservatives.
 * P.207-08

 * Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property. Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference. And cultural relativism is incompatible with the fundamentalindeed foundationalfact of families and intergenerational kinship relations. Families and kinship relations imply cultural absolutism.
 * P.217

 * In a covenant concluded among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one’s own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and removed from society. Likewise, in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They—the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centered lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism—will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order.
 * P. 218.

 * Libertarians, in their attempt to establish a free natural social order, must strive to regain from the state the right to exclusion inherent in private property. Yet even before they accomplish this and in order to render such an achievement even possible, libertarians cannot soon enough begin to reassert and exercise, to the extent that the situation still permits them to do so, their right to exclusion in everyday life. Libertarians must distinguish themselves from others by practicing (as well as advocating) the most extreme form of intolerance and discrimination against egalitarians, democrats, socialists, communists, multiculturalists, environmentalists, ill manners, misconduct, incompetence, rudeness, vulgarity, and obscenity. Like true conservatives, who will have to dissociate themselves from the false social(ist) conservatism of the Buchananites and the neoconservatives, true libertarians must visibly and ostentatiously dissociate themselves from the false multicountercultural and anti-authoritarian egalitarian left-libertarian impostors.
 * P. 219

The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (1993)

 * Kluwer Academic Publishers

 * [O]ur existence is due to the fact that we do not, indeed cannot accept a norm outlawing property in other scarce resources next to and in addition to that of one's physical body. Hence, the right to acquire such goods must be assumed to exist.
 * p. 185

 * [The] property right in one's own body must be said to be justified a priori, for anyone who would try to justify any norm whatsoever would already have to presuppose the exclusive right to control over his body as a valid norm simply in order to say "I propose such in such."
 * p. 335

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