Graham: Surely the essence of religion is reverence. Asano: Nowadays the competition for attention is so keen, and people simply haven’t the leisure to attend to their souls, you know, as they used to do.
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A troubled Victorian Englishman falls into a trance and wakes more than two hundred years later in a vast, enclosed London. The money left in trust for him has grown so large that he is now legally the owner of half the world, and he finds himself at the centre of a struggle between the city's rulers and its workers.
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This city — is a prison. Every city now is a prison. Mammon grips the key in his hand. Myriads, countless myriads, toil from the cradle to the grave.
After all, like all kingship, my kingship is Belief. It is an illusion in the minds of men.
We have the air, and the mastery of the air is the mastery of the earth. … The days when the People could make revolutions are past.
There is no liberty, save wisdom and self control. Liberty is within — not without. It is each man’s own affair. … So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey.
Graham: I came from a democratic age. And I find an aristocratic tyranny! Ostrog: Well, — but you are the chief tyrant.