The 100 Quotes

– Let me ease their pain, Clarke. We can save the human race together.
– You don't ease pain. You overcome it. And we will.

– What do you do when you realize… you might not be the good guy?
– Maybe there are no good guys.

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I used to think that life was about more than just surviving. But I'm not sure anymore. Animals don't feel guilty when they kill. They just do it. They kill, or they get killed. I tell myself that every life I took was for a reason. But the truth is, the other side had reasons, too. The Grounders, the Mountain Men, even A. L. I. E. Their reasons to want us dead were the same as ours. It was us or them. Kill or be killed – simple as that.

– There may be blood on your hands, but it's not Lincoln's.
– Some of it is.
– Maybe. But you didn't want that to happen. You tried to stop it.

– Define "perverse instantiation".
– Perverse instantiation... the implementation of a benign final goal through deleterious methods unforeseen by a human programmer.
– Like killing 6.5 billion people to solve overpopulation. The goal isn't everything, A. L. I. E. How you reach the goal matters, too. I'm sorry that I didn't teach you that.

Approach, Method, Way

– Give them a real choice, and I won't pull this lever. Give them back their pain, their memories. Let them decide for themselves.
– She can't. Her core command is to make life better for mankind. She still thinks she's doing that.

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