BioShock Infinite (2013 Video Game)

Kiff VandenHeuvel: Zachary Hale Comstock

Quotes 

• Zachary Hale Comstock : One man goes into the waters of baptism, a different man comes out, born again. But who is that man who lies submerged? Perhaps that swimmer is both sinner and saint, until he is revealed unto the eyes of man.

• Zachary Hale Comstock : And the Lord saw the wickedness of man was great and he repented that he had made man on the earth. Rain, Forty-days and Fourty-nights of the stuff, and he left not a thing that walked alive. You see my friends, even god is entitled to a do-over, and what is Columbia if not another ark, for another time.

• Zachary Hale Comstock : The seed of the prophet shall sit the throne, and drown in flame the mountains of man.

• Zachary Hale Comstock : And then the archangel showed a vision... a city lighter than air. I asked her "Why do you show this to me, archangel?" "I am not a strong man, I am not a righteous man, I am not a holy man." and she told me the most remarkable thing. "You're right, prophet, but if grace is within the grasp of one such as you, how can anyone else not see it within themselves?"

• Zachary Hale Comstock : And when the angel Columbia gave unto The Founders the tools to build the new Eden, they did so without hesitation. For Eighty-Five years, they prepared the way of the Lord. But when the great Apostate came, he brought War with him and the fields of Eden were soaked with the blood of brothers. The only Emancipation he had to offer... was death.

• Zachary Hale Comstock : What exactly was the great emancipator, emancipating the negro from? From his daily bread, from the nobility of honest days work, from wealthy patrons who sponsered them from cradle to grave. Front clothing and shelter and what have they done?, Why go to Finkton and you shall find out. No man is born free, except the white man, and it is our burden to care for the rest of creation.

• Zachary Hale Comstock : When a soul is born again, what happens to the one left behind in the baptismal water? Is he simply... gone? Or does he exist in some other world, alive, with sin intact?

• Zachary Hale Comstock : Only blood can redeem blood.