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General Dodonna: The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the star fleet. It's defenses are designed around a direct, large-scale assault. A small one-man fighter should be able to penetrate the…

Luke: I don't understand how we got by those troops. I thought we were dead. Obi-Wan: The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.

General Kenobi. Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to convey my father's request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under…

"You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of…

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it…

I have never been able to see how a thirty-year-old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year-old genius.

I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.

Hasta la vista, baby.

John: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.

Terminator: The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time…

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do.

Laws of physics and mathematics are like a coordinate system that runs in only one dimension. Perhaps there is another dimension perpendicular to it, invisible to those laws of physics, describing the same things with different rules, and…

Conformity and rebellion...both ways are simple-minded — they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no use without that foundation.

No one ever said it was easy to hew to a strict code of conduct. Really, the difficulties involved — the missteps we make along the way — are what make it interesting. The internal, and external, struggle, between our base impulses and the…

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people — and this is true whether…

I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Luke: All right, I'll give it a try. Yoda: Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

Leia: I love you. Han: I know.

Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are…

Never tell me the odds!

Luke: I don't believe it. Yoda: That is why you fail.

Luke: I'm looking for a great warrior. Yoda: Great warrior. Wars not make one great.

Father Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. But you only seem to want to destroy it. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: Oh, Father, you're so wrong. Let me explain. Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take…

I don't like warriors. Too narrow-minded, no subtlety. And worse, they fight for hopeless causes. Honor? Huh! Honor's killed millions of people, it hasn't saved a single one. Tell you what I do like though: a killer. A dyed-in-the-wool…

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.