It's not a motorway. It's social engineering. First, the Mexicans. Then, who? You're not building roads. You're building prisons for all those you don't like until all that's left is rich, white men who look and think exactly like you. No, sir!

Beck

Alex: [translated] He's smarter than he seems.
Lewis: He's gotta be cause he seems like a dope.

Townsend: Whatever you have against me...
Beck: It's not against you. It's against the system that allows people like you to rise. You have no talent, no respect for governance, nor do you care about anyone but yourself.

Lewis: How about I investigate Lady Macbeth and you head over to City Hall?
Tiago: I was thinking maybe I go to the temple. Miss Adelaide will have her guard down if it's the 'spic' coming in.
Lewis: Sorry to break it to you but she hates us both equally.

You wanna know why I gave him up? Because I couldn't kill hope. You got something most Pachucos don't. That heart, that faith, that molten lava heat that can burn through hate. So turn your fear into courage. Make Diego's sacrifice count!

Rio

Beck: What are you about, Ms. Malone?
Alex: I don't know what you mean.
Beck: No one seems to know anything about you. Where you were born. Where you went to school. It's like, one day, you appeared out of thin air, sitting on his shoulder and whispering into his ear. That means you have a secret. And in politics, secrets are currency.

Mateo: I don't need make-believe. I need my sister.
Josefina: Your sister has found her faith.
Mateo: So I have no one.

All families have their secrets. There's a reason windows have curtains.

Maria

Beck: Why do you support someone so utterly devoid of worth?
Alex: I think he has potential.
Beck: Do you now? Gonna make him mayor, are you?
Alex: Gonna make him President.
Beck: You're going to make a racist demigogue without a single scruple the President of the United States?
Alex: That's exactly what I'm going to do.

You see, this is what people don't understand about us. We are builders, not destroyers.

Goss

Maria: Sometimes things happen and you think they are bad but they turn out good. When Hansel and Gretel get lost in the woods, they find their way out again, don't they?
Tom: Only when they kill the witch.

Peter: How do you find my Elsa?
Maria: [long pause] She is very clean and pretty, sir.

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Quotes

All Mankind needs to be the monster he truly is is being told he can.

Magda

There will come a time when the world is ready for me. When nation will battle nation. When race will devour race. When brother will kill brother. Until not a soul is left. Are you ready? And on that day, a leader will arise and set all the kingdoms to war and all the races, one against the other. A day when the Dark Powers are coming into alignment and the world is ready to burn. And all it will take is one final spark.

Magda