Mr. Robot
Summary
Mr. Robotquotes helped make it one of the most brain - flex , complex , and multi - superimposed shows on TV when it began airing in 2015 . Ending after four time of year , the show was notorious for its many twists and turn that leave devotee even more unconnected by the close of each season . Not everything Elliot Alderson did or said was of sound mind : he and his hacktivist group call Fsociety were postdate the direction of a man known as Mr. Robot who took on the similitude of Elliot ’s gone father , and wrench out to be Elliot himself all along .
Through his efforts , dissociative identity disorder , paranoia , and delusions , Elliot delivered some disturbing but also persuasion - plague lines . It has been year sinceMr . Robotendedafter four captivating season . But some of Elliot Alderson ’s most wakeless quotes live on . While he was cynical , troubled , and paranoid that the mankind was against him , Elliot also had some thought - provoking things to say about the state of humanityand capitalism . But his journey throughout the show also involve some ego - reflection , moments of awakening , and a few lengthy internal monologs .
Mr. Robot was all about the danger of hacking , and although it seemed enlarged , most of what it show was close to the truth .
16"They Showed Themselves, The Top 1% Of The 1%"
Elliot - Season 3, Episode 10 - “shutdown -r”
" The ace in ascendence , the ones who bet God without permit . And now I ’m gon na take them down . "
Elliot often fixates on the top 1 % of the 1 % and how they abuse their powerfulness . He always wanted to stop them and create a better world but the trouble is that all his past efforts only made them potent . Elliot find a elbow room to move forward once they revealed themselves in the time of year 3 finale as he had aim , clearness , and trust that he ’d never had before . This is an important moment for Elliot , but it also highlights issue of class disparityand the fact that substantial steps must be taken to solve these issuing and create a more just world .
It was all clear , after three seasons ofMr . Robotremaining one of the most puzzling shows on tv . It was also the first prison term the viewers realized that Elliot had a chance to win — or even that he had a material villain to battle all along , other than the voice in his promontory tug him forward into constant struggle .
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15"Every Relationship Is A Power Struggle. Some Of Us Need To Be Controlled."
Elliot - Season 2, Episode 6 - “eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes”
Many mass cogitate relationships are about connectedness and maturation , but in Elliot ’s experience , they are often about control . His kinship with Mr. Robot largely revolves around the power strugglebetween them . The superpower in their relationship is in constant flux , with one often having the upper paw over the other . Elliot ’s expectation on relationships is also shaped by the relationships outside of himself , such as in season 3 when his relationship with Angela also becomes a superpower battle .
To Elliot , relationships may really be about who is the control and who can be check , instead of being about connectedness or increase . This is why he always struggled to find a real connection in his biography . Everyone Elliot connected with was part of the overall scheme to take down those in mogul , and no one could trust anyone else because all that count was one person was in power and the others just follow the lead .
14"How Do I Take Off A Mask When It Stops Being A Mask, When It’s As Much A Part Of Me As I Am?"
Elliot - Season 2, Episode 1 - “eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc”
This interrogation is pose at the beginning of time of year 2 , but it remains relevant until the very end of the serial . The show ’s last large reveal makes this question even more compelling as fans con thatthe Elliot they knew was a " mastermind " personalitywho manifested to protect the veridical Elliot . Mr. Robotends with the real Elliot returning to reality , but he is doubtlessly changed by letting the mask of these other personality control him for so long .
While Mr. Robot and its final season merit abundant kudos , it did n’t provide closure in every regard . This is what answer and what did n’t .
Everyone must be measured about the mask they get into as those masquerade will eventually become part of who they are perpetually . For Elliot , he created so many different personalities , from Mr. Robot to the mother personality to even the hacker hero that sports fan followed throughout the serial . The fact that devotee never got to know the real Elliot by watch the series shows that thisMr . Robotquote was a direct hint at the last bend of the serial publication .
13"There Are Some People Out There… And It Doesn’t Happen A Lot. It’s Rare. But They Refuse To Let You Hate Them…"
Elliot - Season 4, Episode 11 - “eXit”
The full quotation mark continue : " … In fact , they like about you in spite of it . And the really particular ones , they ’re relentless at it . Does n’t weigh what you do to them . They take it and care about you anyway . They do n’t abandon you , no matter how many reason you give them . No matter how much you ’re practically begging them to leave . And you wanna screw why ? Because they feel something for me that I ca n’t … They love me . "
In Elliot ’s final conversation with Whiterose , she essay to appeal to his ego - hate and hatred of social club . Indeed , Elliot ’s rage is one ofthe best scoundrel inMr . Robot . What she did n’t realize was how Elliot developed . People like Darlene , Angela , andeven Mr. Robot choose to dumbfound with Elliot and eff him , regardless of how he tries to promote them away . Their love for Elliot instruct Elliot to love and accept himself . Just as they never gave up on him , Elliot refuses to give up on society . This signifies major character ontogenesis and dish out as a powerful lesson .
12"What If Changing The World Was Just About Being Here, By Showing Up No Matter How Many Times We Get Told We Don’t Belong…"
Elliot - Season 4, Episode 13 - “Hello, Elliot”
The full citation continues : " … by staying reliable even when we ’re sham into being false , by believing in ourselves even when we ’re assure we ’re too different ? And if we all held on to that , if we refuse to budge and fall in line , if we fend our dry land for long enough , just maybe … The humans ca n’t help but change around us . ”
These words from the series finale can act as an important reminder that change always commence with a individual individual . honest change can only happen when individuals stick to their opinion and create the modification themselves . Elliot faces myriad internal and external obstacles throughout the series , but by standing his ground and create the modification he wants to see , the world ultimately relents and begins to change for the better . This is the only style that Elliot finally finds himself on the show and guide off his masque .
11“Maybe Wars Aren’t Meant To Be Won, Maybe They’re Meant To Be Continuous.”
Elliot - Season 2, Episode 10 - “eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx”
This sad actualisation suggests that state of war are only an ongoing product of the world . fight back a war with one person , an organization , or a situation , and then move on to the next . It ’s strictly cyclical , cheerless , and never - ending . This is the way Elliot always think ; pessimism is in his rip and maybe he ’s right . Any fourth dimension someone win one warfare , another go forth . So does anyone really ever win at all ? Or will he simply substitute one warfare with another and call it something different ?
One of Mr. Robot ’s greatest strengths was its form of character , but who were the in effect musician introduced after the first time of year ?
This is not an originalMr . Robotquote , as it was something that George Orwell originally said . His gossip was about veridical wars , and he stated that the entire function of state of war is to " Keep society on the brink of famishment . The war is waged by the ruling mathematical group against its own subjects … to keep the very structure of society intact . " It is obvious this original quote meant a lot to Elliot as it speaks to his entire reason for fighting .
10“We’re All Living In Each Other’s Paranoia.”
Elliot - Season 1, Episode 1 - “eps1.0_hellofriend.mov”
Elliott is see a therapist to deal with his identity result , economic crisis , anxiety , and severe paranoia . As he explain in his academic session , to him , everyone is paranoid . He believes that everyone just hold out based off of the paranoia of others . If one person suspect another of cheating in their relationship , for object lesson , that suspect guilty party must populate with their significant other ’s paranoia . This is what conduct him to his distrust of others , as well as his initiation of multiple alters to protect him from those around him .
Elliot does n’t even trust himself and his paranoia is for good reason . The bad hombre in this story is Elliot , yet he is also the honest guy . He sleep together there is something inside him that is destructive and he knows that if it gets out it could destroy him . He lives in a constant country of paranoia toward the government , toward corporations , and toward his own dark mystery .
9“I’m Good At Reading People. My Secret? I Look For The Worst In Them.”
The expression goes that everyone should always look for the best in the great unwashed . But to Elliot , if searching to get to know someone and learn what they are all about , the best thing to do is look for the spoilt in them . That will expose who they really are behind the maskthey throw on and the someone they portray themselves to be every daylight . This is one thing that keeps him going , and admit him to lie with who he can rely and who he needs to keep an eye on to pull through himself in the remainder .
However , does the worst about a someone truly define them ? Is that who they truly are ? In Elliott ’s eyes , they are who their dreary present moment turn them into . Others who intend more optimistically might simply believe that the worst in someone is just the bad they could be , but who they really are is contemplate when they bring out their best . Elliot refuses to see the trade good in people if he sees that they can be terrible if push enough . He also knows this because he experience it in himself every day .
8"I Do See The Beauty In The Rules, The Invisible Code Of Chaos Hiding Behind The Menacing Face Of Order."
As this quotation mark suggests , Elliot believes the construct of conventional normal is a manikin of topsy-turvydom . In his thinker , rule are simply engineer forms of chaos , meant to wangle and master citizenry into know in a personal sense of chaos . But this accuracy is masked beyond what the rule present , which is a seemingly organize current of people simply living out their casual living , hold out through their motions . However , for Elliot , " going through the motions " is a form of being locked into a style of prison .
In thisMr . Robotquote , he admit that he recognizes the appeal of the rules because he believe it does make the chaos inconspicuous . But he sees right through them , knows the chaos that exists under the airfoil , and Elliot want others to see this chaos as well . It is only then that people can place upright up against order and take down the rein socio-economic class .
7“I’ve Never Found It Hard To Hack Most People."
Elliot - Season 4, Episode 12 - “whoami”
" If you listen to them , ascertain them , their vulnerability are like a neon signaling hump into their head . ”
ThroughoutMr . Robot , Elliot uses his marvelous hacking acquisition for what he believe to be a cracking good , delivering his own sense of vigilante Department of Justice . When he conceive that someone is up to no good , he hacks into them , finds proof , and then essentially blackmails them to coerce them into doing what ’s veracious . He is a modern - day Robin Hood , in the information processing system age . However , this makes one curiosity how he is always capable to get the information , and hisMr . Robotquote here reveals his thought process .
He intromit that he often hope he ’s amiss and has hack into an innocent person . Buthe believes that he is so perceptive that he can fleck those who are doing wrong , and he therefore only hack them to find oneself the proof he already knows is there . This is confirm in another great quote : “ … I never want to be right about my hacks , but multitude always find a way to disappoint . ”
