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Lambert: You admire it. Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? A perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.

I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies.

There's no such thing as an ex-marine. You may be out, but you never lose the attitude. I told myself I could pass any test a man could pass.

I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace. Sooner or later though, we always have to wake up.

You're not in Kansas anymore. You are on Pandora ladies and gentlemen. Respect that fact every second of every day. If there is a hell, you might want to go there for some R and R after a tour on Pandora. Out there, beyond that fence…

Since you're new here, I-I'm gonna cut you a break... today. So, why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?

Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain.

Marty McFly: Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88. Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads?... Where we're going we don't need roads.

I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drug store, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.

Dr. Emmett Brown: Tell me, Future Boy, who's President of the United States in 1985? Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan. Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor? Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady?…

Any community's arm of force?military, police, security?needs people in it who can do the necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary, and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into…

My home is not a place, it is people.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

The most insidious lie is the one you want to hear.

Rick Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine: they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem. Rachael: May I ask you a personal question? Rick Deckard: Sure. Rachael: Have you ever retired a human by…

Eldon Tyrell: You were made as well as we could make you. Roy Batty: But not to last. Eldon Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy.

It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?

Eldon Tyrell: I'm surprised you didn't come here sooner. Roy Batty: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.

Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. "More human than human" is our motto.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that’s philosophy. People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to believe in God.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against…

That is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Mustapha Mond: We prefer to do things comfortably. John: But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. Mustapha Mond: In fact, you’re claiming the right to be unhappy…