Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

Network (1976)

Network is a terrific film. One of my personal faves and so prophetic.

Pinhead from Hellraiser 3 : Shall we begin?
and
Samuel L Jackson : My names Pitt and yo ass ain't talking your way out of this sh*t.

Absolute classic. prison governor in Cool hand luke. "What we got here is a failure to communicate."

Logan: Everything made sense... until Box.

Logan's Run (1976)


Alfredo: Get out of here! Go back to Rome. You're young and the world is yours. I'm old. I don't want to hear you talk anymore. I want to hear others talking about you. Don't come back. Don't think about us. Don't look back. Don't write. Don't give in to nostalgia. Forget us all. If you do and you come back, don't come see me. I won't let you in my house. Understand?

Salvatore: Thank you. For everything you've done for me.

Alfredo: Whatever you end up doing, love it. The way you loved the projection booth when you were a little squirt.

Cinema Paradiso (1988)


Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy poop we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very vexed off.

Fight Club (1999)


Socrates: Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Peaceful Warrior (2006)

The film has probably got two of the best speeches in cinema history which makes it so fantastic. I’d love to see a modern remake but to be fair Network was so perfect for it’s time.

I nearly quoted these very words yesterday.

Excellent choice old boy.

STOP!

STOP RIGHT HERE!

Where is Damo and who is this imposter - we don't go any further until we get the truth.

It's still perfect now. Everything about it is still highly relevant, possibly even more so.

Two more lines from favorite films that relate to me personally


Andy: The only reason I get up in the morning is to see if my luck's changed. And it never bloody has.

Brassed Off (1996)


Archer: Sometimes, someday I somehow get the strangest notion they're trying to break my spirit.

Scum (1979)