Sweet Lu Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 from Major League:Jake Taylor: You're a celebrity now VaughnRick Vaughn: thought you had to do something good to be a celebrityJake Taylor: Not if you do it colorfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aranka Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Judgment at NuremburgErnst Janning: We have fallen on happy times, Herr Hahn. In old times it would have made your day if I'd deigned to say good morning to you. Now that we are here in this place together... you feel obliged to tell me what to do with my life... Listen to me, Herr Hahn, there have been terrible things that have happened to me in my life. But the worst thing that has ever happened... is to find myself in the company of men like you. Ernst Janning: There was a fever over the land. A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger. We had a democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within. Above all, there was fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, and fear of ourselves. Only when you understand that - can you understand what Hitler meant to us. Because he said to us: 'Lift your heads! Be proud to be German! There are devils among us. Communists, Liberals, Jews, Gypsies! Once these devils will be destroyed, your misery will be destroyed.' It was the old, old story of the sacrifical lamb. What about those of us who knew better? We who knew the words were lies and worse than lies? Why did we sit silent? Why did we take part? Because we loved our country! What difference does it make if a few political extremists lose their rights? What difference does it make if a few racial minorities lose their rights? It is only a passing phase. It is only a stage we are going through. It will be discarded sooner or later. Hitler himself will be discarded... sooner or later. The country is in danger. We will march out of the shadows. We will go forward. Forward is the great password. And history tells how well we succeeded, your honor. We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. The very elements of hate and power about Hitler that mesmerized Germany, mesmerized the world! We found ourselves with sudden powerful allies. Things that had been denied to us as a democracy were open to us now. The world said 'go ahead, take it, take it! Take Sudetenland, take the Rhineland - remilitarize it - take all of Austria, take it! And then one day we looked around and found that we were in an even more terrible danger. The ritual began in this courtoom swept over the land like a raging, roaring disease. What was going to be a passing phase had become the way of life. Your honor, I was content to sit silent during this trial. I was content to tend my roses. I was even content to let counsel try to save my name, until I realized that in order to save it, he would have to raise the specter again. You have seen him do it - he has done it here in this courtroom. He has suggested that the Third Reich worked for the benefit of people. He has suggested that we sterilized men for the welfare of the country. He has suggested that perhaps the old Jew did sleep with the sixteen year old girl, after all. Once more it is being done for love of country. It is not easy to tell the truth; but if there is to be any salvation for Germany, we who know our guilt must admit it... whatever the pain and humiliation. Judge Dan Haywood: Janning, to be sure, is a tragic figure. We believe he *loathed* the evil he did. But compassion for the present torture of his soul must not beget forgetfulness of the torture and death of millions by the government of which he was a part. Janning's record and his fate illuminate the most shattering truth that has emerged from this trial. If he and the other defendants were all depraved perverts - if the leaders of the Third Reich were sadistic monsters and maniacs - these events would have no more moral significance than an earthquake or other natural catastrophes. But this trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, men - even able and extraordinary men - can delude themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous as to stagger the imagination. No one who has sat through this trial can ever forget. The sterilization of men because of their political beliefs... The murder of children... How *easily* that can happen! There are those in our country today, too, who speak of the "protection" of the country. Of "survival". The answer to that is: *survival as what*? A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. *It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!* Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what *we* stand for: *justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!* Hans Rolfe: I'll make you a wager...Judge Dan Haywood: I don't make wagers.Hans Rolfe: [chuckles] A gentleman's wager... in five years, the men you sentenced to life imprisonment will be free.Judge Dan Haywood: Herr Rolfe, I have admired your work in the court for many months. You are particularly brilliant in your use of logic...[Rolfe nods with an appreciative smile]Judge Dan Haywood: -so, what you suggest may very well happpen. It *is* logical, in view of the times in which we live. *But to be logical is not to be right*, and *nothing* on God's earth could ever *make it* right![Rolfe wipes the smile from his face]Ernst Janning: Judge Haywood... the reason I asked you to come: Those people, those millions of people... I never knew it would come to that. You *must* believe it, *You must* believe it!Judge Dan Haywood: Herr Janning, it "came to that" the *first time* you sentenced a man to death you *knew* to be innocent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lu Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 from Johnny DangerouslyRoman Moroni: I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Smith Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 I like this quote..Sir Knight : "What makes you think she's a witch?" Villager : "Well she turned me into a newt." Sir Knight : "A newt?" Villager : "...I got better." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael* Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 I like this quote..Sir Knight : "What makes you think she's a witch?" Villager : "Well she turned me into a newt." Sir Knight : "A newt?" Villager : "...I got better." The Holy Grail... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lu Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 A hospital? What is it?It's a building where they take sick people to, but that's not important right now-Airplane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lu Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 you're lying dolores. and one musn't tell liesharry potter and the deathly gallows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico_sw Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 We do need this thread! I liked this part of the big Lebowski (the dialog between the Dude and the Stranger with the cowboy hat) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico_sw Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 The Dude abides!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico_sw Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 He always had the most evolved lines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Enrico_sw Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 "Three tomatoes are walking down the street- a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him... and says, Catch'up" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico_sw Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 A good lesson for kids Do you see what happens Larry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Aaliyah Nana Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Wow...amazing quotes. Thank you for sharing. I am not a fan of movies but love this quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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