“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com
“That means I’m going to have to die over and over again to save all of you?”— Christopher Landon, Theresa "Tree" Gelbman, Jessica Rothe, imdb.com
“If I don’t stop the killer, more people will die.”— Christopher Landon, Theresa "Tree" Gelbman, Jessica Rothe, imdb.com
“I have to save my granddaughter. I have to save my family. And no one is going to stop me.”— Grainne Godfree, Morgan Faust, Amaya Jiwe, Maisie Richardson Sellers, imdb.com
“You just try to do more than one human could possibly do.”— Alan Ball, Kristen Bayer-Boatwright, Sosie Bacon, imdb.com
“With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don't seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together.”— Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight, Desmond T. Doss, Andrew Garfield, imdb.com
“Mulder, sometimes I think the world is going to hell and we’re the only two people who can save it.”— Chris Carter, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“This is not yours to fix alone. You act like you’re all alone out there in the world, but you’re not. You’re not alone.”— Justin Doble, Joyce Byers, Winona Ryder, imdb.com
“Kali: They cannot save you, Jane. Eleven: No. But I can save them.”— Justin Doble, Kali, Meagan Good, imdb.com
“You’re trying to save six people, I’m trying to save 600,000. And that means one slip-up, one ‘what if’ and we all start finding out how the neighbors taste.”— David Wiener, Bethany Exner, Sandrine Holt, imdb.com
“You can’t save everyone.”— Robert Kirkman, Dave Erickson, Alicia Clark, Alycia Debnam Carey, imdb.com
“At first I thought I wanted to help the victims, but it turns out I just like talking to sociopaths. They fascinate me.”— Ron Nyswaner, Kate, Vinessa Shaw, imdb.com
“White knights pride themselves on 'saving' others and this is a core part of their identity in relationships. Rather than opening themselves up to true intimacy where both parties in a relationship are emotionally fulfilled, they unconsciously seek out unhealthy partners who appear to most need them…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Why is it my job to save these people? Why do I have to be some kind of hero?”— Eric Kripke, Raelle Tucker, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com
“Sam: We've gotta save as many people as we can. Dean: Wow, that attitude is just way too healthy for me. I'm officially uncomfortable now. Thank you.”— Matt Witten, Sam Winchester, Jared Padalecki, imdb.com
“Somebody goes over Niagara in a barrel, you gonna jump in and try to save them?”— Sera Gamble, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com