[Nino points a gun at Chiki] Nino: Now... tell me. Who started the war? Chiki: [long pause] We did.
[first title card] Title card: "Rejoice O young man in thy youth..." - Ecclesiastes
Patton: Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, then anything built by man can be overcome.
H.I.: I"m in here on my knees, Ed, a free man proposing. Howdy, Kurt.
Private Cox: [beating up Mason] English prick. I tell you my old man was Irish?
Niki Lauda: A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Old Man: Shut up you bitch hog!
Old Man: Look... I got some good barbecue here!
Old Man: [to Leatherface] You... you damn fool! You ruined the door!
Old Man: [to Sally] Just take it easy now.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.