BioShock 2 (2010 Video Game)

Fenella Woolgar: Sofia Lamb

Quotes 

• [from trailer] 

  Dr. Sofia Lamb : For every choice, there is an echo, with each act we change the world. One man chose a city free of law and god, but others chose corruption, and so the city fell. If the world was reborn in your image, would it be paradise or perdition?

• [Diary entry for Dr. Sofia Lamb] 

  Dr. Sofia Lamb : In ethical psychiatry, we must account for...

  [sound of tape being interrupted] 

  Young Eleanor Lamb : [giggle]  Eleanor Lamb speaking. Mum says I'm not to play with the other children, because they're 'being raised on a diet of dog-eat-dog'. I wanted to see these dog-eaters... so I waited until Mum was gone... and went out to find one... and guess what? The dog eaters wear human skins... it makes them look just like us!

• Dr. Sofia Lamb : This is not a sermon. I will offer no insight. Every word I speak, you already know.

• Andrew Ryan : White is not black, Doctor Lamb. Down is not up, and straw is not gold. Look around you. Rapture is no miracle, it is a product of reason, impossible unless one and one are two, and A equates to A.

  Dr. Sofia Lamb : And yet... alone, each man is a prisoner to bias. Dream, delusion, or the pain of a phantom limb. To one man, they are as real as rain. Reality is consensus... and the people are losing faith. Take a walk Andrew. It is raining in Rapture... and you have simply chosen not to notice.

• Dr. Sofia Lamb : I know the surface, Eleanor. I spent half a lifetime there, in service of the common good. But then, I heard my own words twisted by fat old men, squatting over the embers of Hiroshima. Were the modern world a patient in my care, I would diagnose it suicidal. On perhaps that point alone, Andrew Ryan is correct. Rapture... is deliverance.

• Dr. Sofia Lamb : Rapture is a paradise of the ego, Eleanor. Under Ryan, the voices of an entire city sing the virtues of greed and pride.

• Andrew Ryan : Religious rights, Doctor? You are free to kneel before whatever tribal fetish you favor in the comfort of your own home. But in Rapture, liberty is our only law. A man's only duty is to himself. To imply otherwise, therefore, is criminal.

  Dr. Sofia Lamb : Ask yourself, Andrew, what is your "Great Chain of Progress" but a faith? The chain is a symbol for an irrational force, guiding us towards ascension. No less mystic than the crucifixes you seize and burn.

• Dr. Sofia Lamb : Awareness of self is no miracle, Eleanor... it is a trick of the gene, an endless inner refrain, asking: "What's in it for me?" To serve the world, we must grow deaf to the self.