Equilibrium Movie Quotes
Partridge
You always knew.
[begins to read from Yeats]
Partridge
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." I assume you dream, Preston.
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Mary
Let me ask you something.
[Grabs his hand]
Mary
Why are you alive?
John Preston
[Breaks free]
I'm alive... I live... to safeguard the continuity of this great society. To serve Libria.
Mary
It's circular. You exist to continue your existence. What's the point?
John Preston
What's the point of your existence?
Mary
To feel. 'Cause you've never done it, you can never know it. But it's as vital as breath. And without it, without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock... ticking.
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DuPont
And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.
[Polygraph suddenly registers Preston completely in control]
Polygraph Technician
Oh... Shit.
John Preston
Not without incident.
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John Preston
I'll do what I can to see they go easy on you.
Partridge
We both know they never "go easy".
John Preston
Then, I'm sorry.
Partridge
No, you're not. You don't even know the meaning. Its just a vestigial word for a feeling you've never felt.
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DuPont
Be careful Preston. You're treading on my dreams.
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[last lines]
DuPont
Wait! Wait! Look at me. Look at me. I'm life. I live... I, I breathe... I feel. Now that you know it... can you really take it? Is it really worth the price?
[Preston sees a flash of Mary's face]
John Preston
I pay it gladly.
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DuPont
The gun katas. Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increase to lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly.
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John Preston
There's no war. No murder.
Partridge
What is it you think we do?
John Preston
No. You've been with me, you've seen how it can be - the jealousy, rage.
Partridge
A heavy cost. I pay it gladly.
[Reaches for his gun]
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Robbie Preston
Looking for something. If I were you I'd be more careful in future.
John Preston
How long?
Robbie Preston
Since mom
John Preston
And Lisa
Robbie Preston
Of course
John Preston
How did you know?
Robbie Preston
You forget. It's my job to know what you're thinking.
John Preston
And you know what I'm gonna do now.
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Father
Mankind united with infinitely greater purpose in pursuit of war than he ever did in pursuit of peace.
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Robbie Preston
[Mutes TV]
John?
John Preston
Yes?
Robbie Preston
I saw Robbie Taylor crying today. He didn't know, but I saw. Do you think I should report him?
John Preston
Unquestionably.
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John Preston
When we return from the Nether it always reminds me of why we do what we do.
Partridge
It does?
Partridge
[Withdraws Prozium-administering device from his pocket and injects himself with it]
It does.
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Brandt
Always practicing, Cleric. Maybe that's why you're the best.
John Preston
Maybe I'm just better.
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Polygraph Technician
This is a control question, a riddle really. How would you say would be the easiest way to take a weapon away from a Grammaton Cleric?
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[trying to convince a group of rebels that he's letting them escape]
John Preston
Go. Go, damn you!
[sees another rebel being shot and knows this group will be next]
John Preston
Get out of here, God damn it! If you don't, you're dead!
Rebel
Don't do it. He'll shoot us in the back.
John Preston
If I was gonna shoot you, I'd shoot you in the face. Now go.
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Brandt
Mind the uniform Cleric.
[unsheathes a katana]
Brandt
I plan to be wearing it for a long time.
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Brandt
I'm not feeling! He is the one who's feeling!
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DuPont
You really should learn to knock.
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Brandt
Cleric, I can only hope one day to be as uncompromising as you.
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John Preston
Then I have no choice but to remand you to the Palace of Justice for processing.
Mary
Processing. You mean execution, don't you?
John Preston
Processing.
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Father
Prozium - The great nepenthe. Opiate of our masses. Glue of our great society. Salve and salvation, it has delivered us from pathos, from sorrow, the deepest chasms of melancholy and hate. With it, we anesthetize grief, annihilate jealousy, obliterate rage. Those sister impulses towards joy, love, and elation are anesthetized in stride, we accept as fair sacrifice. For we embrace Prozium in its unifying fullness and all that it has done to make us great.
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John Preston
You're an offender!
Reading Room Proprietor
I'm not!
John Preston
No? Then why are you so scared of me?
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Mary
You can't do this! You cannot do this!
John Preston
Tetragrammaton. There's nothing we can't do.
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[first lines]
DuPont
In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man - his ability to feel.
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DuPont
It is not the will of the Council, it is the will of Father and he is law.
John Preston
Sir... without the logic of process, is it not just mayhem - what we have worked so hard to eradicate?
DuPont
You must understand, Preston, that while you - and even I - may not always agree with it,it is not the message that is important, it is our obedience to it. Father's will. Call it faith. You have it, I assume?
John Preston
Yes. I have it.
DuPont
Good.
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Brandt
I told you I'd make my career with you, Preston.
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Brandt
You clean, we'll sweep.
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John Preston
You're absolutely 100% right, sir.
DuPont
Of course I am.
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Brandt
[after arresting Preston]
This man, this senior Cleric, has ceased the dose! He is feeling! He is the worm that has been eating at the core of our great society! And I, I have brought him for your justice!
[kicks Preston]
Brandt
I told you I'd make my career with you, Preston.
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Mary
What... what'll you do?
John Preston
...I don't know.
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John Preston
I'm coming.
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