Conscious

Conscious
Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
--George Orwell's 1984

Monsters

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"