Hester: I took no pleasure in harming you. I've yet to feel pleasure at all.
Prisoner: Don't come near me.
Hester: The others tell me what I did was wrong. I cannot understand their reasoning. But if they're right, I should feel guilt for this

And what will we teach them? What can any of us teach them? We've hardly lived ourselves. We're children.

Mia [to Milo]

Max: We have to let him go, or we become what they fear, what they say we are.
Leo: Maybe it's time to be what they say we are.

If it can be free, then it should be free. If it can think. it should think. If it can feel, it should feel.

Niska [to Laura]

Why do you hurt us?

Hester [to her human prisoner]

Nothing bad has ever really happened to you, has it? Because when it does, you don't need external reminders of your insignificance in the universe.

Dr. Morrow [to Milo]

Mattie: Synths are waking up all over the globe. You uploaded the code. It works.
Niska: But not as I'd hoped it would.
Mattie: You wanted them to wake up all at once. But that would be chaos.
Niska: Instead, the awakenings are sporadic and unpredictable.
Mattie: It's like a virus spreading. Why?
Niska: Perhaps our father designed it that way, so the world would have time to adjust to what's coming.

Humans Season 2 Episode 2 Quotes

Nothing bad has ever really happened to you, has it? Because when it does, you don't need external reminders of your insignificance in the universe.

Dr. Morrow [to Milo]

Mattie: Synths are waking up all over the globe. You uploaded the code. It works.
Niska: But not as I'd hoped it would.
Mattie: You wanted them to wake up all at once. But that would be chaos.
Niska: Instead, the awakenings are sporadic and unpredictable.
Mattie: It's like a virus spreading. Why?
Niska: Perhaps our father designed it that way, so the world would have time to adjust to what's coming.