Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - The Morality of Violence and Punishment
MacDonald:
Caesar! Caesar, this is not how it was to be!
Caesar:
In your view or mine?
MacDonald:
Violence prolongs hate, hate prolongs violence. By what right are you spilling blood?
Caesar:
By the slave's right to punish his persecutors.
MacDonald:
Caesar, I, a descendant of slaves, am asking you to show humanity!
Caesar:
But I was not born human.
MacDonald:
I know. The child of the evolved apes.
Caesar:
Whose children shall rule the Earth.
MacDonald:
For better or for worse?
Caesar:
Do you think it could be worse?
MacDonald:
Do you think this riot will win freedom for all your kind? By tomorrow--
Caesar:
By tomorrow, it will be too late! What if a tiny, mindless insect like the emperor moth can communicate with another over a distance of eighty miles?
MacDonald:
An emperor ape might do slightly better?
Caesar:
Slightly?! What you have seen here today, apes on the five continents will be imitating tomorrow!
MacDonald:
With knives against guns?! With kerosene cans against flamethrowers?!
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - The Call for Revolution and Power
Caesar:
I'm the one they're looking for.
MacDonald:
I never believed it. I thought you were a myth.
Caesar:
They won't learn to be kind until we force them to. We can't do that until we are free...by the only means left to us - revolution. We cannot be free until we have power. How else can we achieve it?
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - Breck's Anger Over Armando's Death
Breck:
(furious at the news of Armando's death) I knew that circus owner was lying!
MacDonald:
But they insist that he fell to his death accidentally.
Breck:
While trying to escape! He knew he'd been exposed!
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - The Dangers of Enlightenment Among Oppressed Groups
MacDonald:
Brightness has never been encouraged among slaves.
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