More Disco Elysium Quotes

MEASUREHEAD - "THAT IS A LIE YOU ADMINISTER YOURSELF. LIKE HEART MEDICINE. GO WITHOUT IT ONE DAY AND YOUR HEART WILL STOP."

YOU - "What kind of a store is this anyway?"

ANNETTE - "It's a book store, sir! We sell books, postcards, and some board games." She points at the window. "It's called *Crime, Romance, and Biographies of Famous People.*"

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Whoah! WHOAH-WHOAH-WHOAH! Hold your horses little girl!

YOU - "This isn't about hunger, Kim, it's about camaraderie."

KIM KITSURAGI- "Camaraderie?"

YOU - "Yes! By sharing this sandwich you and I solidify the bond between us."

YOU - "What does this question say about me?"

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - "Yes, that's the question you should be asking yourself."

ECHO MAKER - His companion nods, but offers no further solace.

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - "What makes you ask *that* question, above any other?"

YOU - "Because I can't handle *them*."

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - "Maybe your problem is that you think they're *yours* to handle..."

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - "What makes you ask *that* question, above any other?"

YOU - "Because they can't handle *me*."

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - "Maybe your problem is that you think it's their job to *handle* you..."

RHETORIC - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is:

YOU - (Whisper.) "Are women bourgeois?"

YOU - "I don't really like women, only their rights."

GARTE, THE CAFETERIA MANAGER - "I'll call them for recompensation for the room. But you still owe me 70 for the drinks and the window. And I do *not* think women are mentally inferior to men."

YOU - "Are you *seriously* using this moment to assert male privilege!?!"

KIM KITSURAGI - "He is very passionate about this."

REACTION SPEED - What was with that *sir*?

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - She's a woman, that's how women speak to men. With respect.

REACTION SPEED - No...NO... NO!!! You're a feminist, remember?

ENDURANCE - Föminist? No! It can't be. Not you.

YOU - "What does this have to do with women?"

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - "Everything, man. That is part of the communist project, to destroy the ideological structures that reduce men and women to these hollow shells of identity."

YOU - No, fascism is about industry and politics and nationhood, not wömen. I'm absolutely okay with women.

ENDURANCE - Of course you are, bröther. Of course.

YOU - "Man to man, you shouldn't leave your wöman unattended in a cafeteria surrounded by *communists*."

ENDURANCE - And that doesn't even *begin* to cover what's happened to your wömen...

YOU - Not my wömen...

YOU - "I like women."

MEASUREHEAD - "SO... WOMEN, HUH?" The Semenese supraman stretches on the couch like a giant tattooed cat.

YOU - (Nod first.) "Women."

MEASUREHEAD - "WOMEN," he repeats.

YOU - "I don't understand. Ruby's a woman, right? It's a *woman's* name."

KLAASJE (MISS ORANJE DISCO DANCER) - "Yes." She nods.

YOU - "But... you're *also* a woman."

KIM KITSURAGI - "Women like women too, officer. Try not to fixate on this. Let's move on."

YOU - That grey-haired lorry driver might know something.

ENDURANCE - No, not her. She's a woman. Anyone else?

ENDURANCE - …wömen.

YOU - Wömen?

ENDURANCE - Wö-Men. Men of Wö. You don't like them. They're insane.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - It's a woman and she knows you!

ECHO MAKER - "Strange. I thought that women were attracted to a certain amount of revolutionary musk..."

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - "Maybe it's a question of degree."

YOU - "Figures. Typical patriarchal nonsense, mascu-venomosity."

JOYCE MESSIER - "I am a bourgeois woman and this is my fast, lightweight, interminably bourgeois boat."

RENÉ ARNOUX - "Should've fought dirty. Like they did with their suicide sex cult propaganda and *mad anarchist women* strapped to shrapnel bombs. We didn't though. And we lacked *calibre*. God bless him, but the suzerain's cannons simply weren't big enough.“

YOU - Kim, why did I call that woman a whore, just now?

YOU - "Why don't more women arm themselves if it's so effective?"

LILIENNE, THE NET PICKER - "What makes you think we haven't?" She smiles. "Heh. The truth is that almost everyone in this life is scared and tired and stupid and too *dull* for that."

NOVELTY DICEMAKER - "And by 'man the booth' I mean 'slump behind the counter with a face that could maim you if you ever dared to disturb their bored magazine-browsing.'" She leans back, disapproving.'

RHETORIC - Sounds like she really doesn't know how to be a female ally!

YOU - "That's those foreign ideas messing with your head. You don't even realize you're *literally* on your knees right now! Our women -- literally on their knees!"

ACELE - "Man, that's because my equipment's on the ground."