Quintus Arrius: Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.
Sextus: You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? [taps his head] Sextus: How do you fight an idea?
[Quintas Arrius wakes up, chained, on ship debris; the chain is held by Judah] Quintus Arrius: Why did you save me? Judah Ben-Hur: Why did you have me unchained? [they struggle briefly, Arrius is overpowered; he looks at the shackle on Judah's ankle]...
Quintus Arrius: In his eagerness to save you, your God has also saved the Roman fleet.
Esther: It was Judah Ben-Hur I loved. What has become of him? You seem to be now the very thing you set out to destroy. Giving evil for evil. Hatred is turning you to stone. It's as though you had become Messala.
Quintus Arrius: Now listen to me, all of you. You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live.
Messala: By what magic do you bear the name of a Consul of Rome? Judah Ben-Hur: You were the magician, Messala. When my ship was sunk, I saved the Consul's life.
Judah Ben-Hur: He gave me water, and the heart to live. What has he done to merit this? Balthasar: He has taken the world of our sins onto Himself. To this end He said He was born, in that stable, where I first saw Him. For this cause, He came into t...
[on Arrius' orders, Judah is left unlocked for the upcoming battle; Judah touches his unchained ankle, bewildered] Rower No. 42: Forty-one, why did he do that? Judah Ben-Hur: I don't know. [remembering Nazareth] Judah Ben-Hur: Once before, a man help...
Judah Ben-Hur: [after he is sentenced to the galleys] May God grant me vengeance! I will pray that you live until I return! Messala: [ironically] Return?
Judah Ben-Hur: If you were not a bride, I would kiss you goodbye. Esther: If I were not a bride, there would be no goodbyes to be said.
Judah Ben-Hur: [dipping a hand in a stream] When the Romans were marching me to the galleys, thirst had almost killed me. A man gave me water to drink, and I went on living. I should have done better if I'd poured it into the sand! Balthasar: No. Jud...
Messala: By condemning without hesitation an old friend, I shall be feared.
[last lines] Judah Ben-Hur: Almost at the moment He died, I heard Him say, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Esther: Even then. Judah Ben-Hur: Even then. And I felt His voice take the sword out of my hand. [Miriam and Tirzah app...
Sheik Ilderim: One God, that I can understand; but one wife? That is not civilized. [nudges Judah] Sheik Ilderim: It is not generous!
Sheik Ilderim: Was the food not to your liking? Judah Ben-Hur: Oh, indeed! [Balthasar gestures for Judah to burp in gratitude, and Judah burps]
Miriam: [speaking of Christ] As though he were carrying that cross the pain of the world. [she whispers] Miriam: So fearful. Tirzah: And yet why is it... I'm not afraid anymore? [thunder rumbles] Esther: The shadow of a storm. [they go inside a nearb...
