Plan 9 from Outer Space - Moral Dilemmas of Survival and Destruction
Lt. Harper: [''About Eros'']
He's mad.
Tanna:
Mad? Is it mad that you destroy other people to save yourselves? You have done this. Is it mad that one country must destroy another to save themselves? You have also done this. How then is it "mad" that one planet must destroy another who threatens the very existence-...
Eros: [''Shoves her roughly aside''; ''To the humans''; [w:Reproduction|women are for advancing the race]
That's enough. In my land, ], not for fighting man's battles.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space - The Consequences of Power and Ignorance
Jeff:
So what if we do develop this solaronite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation than now.
Eros:
Stronger." You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
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Plan 9 from Outer Space - The Dangers of Humanity's Destructive Progress
Col. Edwards:
Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our earth?
Eros:
Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots.
Jeff:
Now you just hold on, Buster.
Eros: [[w:Grenade|hand grenade; [w:nuclear weapons|the atom bomb; [w:Nuclear fission|split the atom; [w:hydrogen bomb|the hydrogen bomb]
No, you hold on. First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your ]: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon ], ]. Then ], where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun: The only explosion left is the solaronite.
Col. Edwards:
Why, there's no such thing.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space - The Fear of the Thinking and the Dead
Eros:
Those whom we're using cannot think. They are the dead, brought to a simulated life by our electrode guns. You know, it's an interesting thing when you consider: the Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who cannot — the dead.
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