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Loretta Young Quotes

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Memorable Quotes from Loretta Young

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The Dark Legacy of Franz Kindler
Mary Longstreet Why do you want me to look at these horrors?
Mr. Wilson All this you're seeing, it's all the product of one mind. The mind of a man named Franz Kindler. Franz Kindler. Yes, he was the most brilliant of the younger minds from the Nazi party. It was Kindler who conceived the theory of genocide, mass depopulation of conquered countries. So that regardless of who won the war, Germany would emerge the strongest nation in Western Europe, biologically speaking.
Confrontation Over Intentions and Actions
Mary Longstreet Did you kill Noah?
Professor Charles Rankin Yes, if he goes to the church and climbs up that ladder!
Mary Longstreet It was I you intended to kill, wasn't it?
Professor Charles Rankin No.
Mary Longstreet Why wasn't it I? Franz Kindler! Kill me. Kill me, I want you to. I couldn't face life knowing what I've been to you and what I've done to Noah. But when you kill me, don't put your hands on me! Here!
[hands Charles a gun]
Unexpected Disappearance of a New Husband
Mary Longstreet Hello, father. Has anybody seen my brand new husband?
[about Prof. Charles Rankin]
Judge Longstreet Don't tell me he's deserted you already.
Mary Longstreet Yes, it looks as if, the brute.
Desperation and Guilt in a Moment of Confrontation
Mary Longstreet Why wasn't it I... Franz Kindler? Kill me. Kill me, I want you to. I couldn't face life knowing what I've been to you and what I've done to Noah. But when you kill me, don't put your hands on me! Here! Use this!
[Picks up a fireplace poker]
Royal Identities in Conflict
Alice, Princess of France I am Alice of France, betrothed to King Richard. Who are you?
[after being told she must vacate her cabin on the ship for another royal lady]
Berengaria, Princess of Navarre I'm his wife.
A Difficult Departure Based on Love
Mary Longstreet Why are you packing? Are we going somewhere?
Professor Charles Rankin We aren't, dearest. I am.
Mary Longstreet What are you talking about?
Professor Charles Rankin As a rule, men leave their wives because they don't love them, but...I must leave you because I do. Oh, you won't object once you know the kind of man you've married.
Mary Longstreet But you are the man I've married, and that's all that matters. Darling, I meant it when I said for better or for worse. Even to...
Professor Charles Rankin To killing Red?
Mary Longstreet You couldn't have. It was an accident.
Professor Charles Rankin No, I meant to kill him. Murder can be a chain, Mary, one link leading to another until it circles your neck. Red was digging at the grave of the man I killed. Yes, your little man.
Mary Longstreet You killed him?
Professor Charles Rankin With these hands. The same hands that have held you close to me. Now are you satisfied to let me go?
A Tense Confrontation Between Royal Figures
Berengaria, Princess of Navarre Let go of my wrist! You're hurting it.
[Resisting Richard pulling her into her father's room]
Richard, King of England Well, stop pulling then.
The German Perspective on History and Identity
Mr. Wilson Do you know Germany, Mr. Rankin?
Professor Charles Rankin I'm sorry, I...I have a way of making enemies when I'm on that subject. I get pretty unpopular.
Mr. Wilson Well, we shall consider it the objective opinion of an objective historian.
Professor Charles Rankin Historian? A psychiatrist could explain it better. The German sees himself as the innocent victim of world envy and hatred, conspired against, set upon by inferior peoples, inferior nations. He cannot admit to error, much less to wrongdoing, not the German. We chose to ignore Ethiopia and Spain, but we learned from our own casualty list the price of looking the other way. Men of truth everywhere have come to know for whom the bell tolled, but not the German. No! He still follows his warrior gods marching to ] strains, his eyes still fixed upon the fiery ]. And in those subterranean meeting places that you don't believe in, the German's dream world comes alive when he takes his place in shining armor beneath the banners of the ]. Mankind is waiting for the Messiah, but for the German, the Messiah is not the Prince of Peace. No, he's... another ]... another ].
[[w:Richard Wagner|Wagnerian; [w:Gram (mythology)|sword of Siegfried; [w:Teutonic Knights|Teutonic Knights; [w:Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Barbarossa; [Adolph Hitler|Hitler]
Mr. Wilson Well, then you have no faith in the reforms that are being effected in Germany.
Professor Charles Rankin I don't know, Mr. Wilson. I can't believe that people can be reformed except from within. The basic principles of equality and freedom never have and never will take root in Germany. The will to freedom has been voiced in every other tongue. "All men are created equal", liberte, egalite, fraternite - but in German...
Noah Longstreet There's ]. "Proletarians, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.
[[Karl Marx|Marx]
Professor Charles Rankin But Marx wasn't a German, Marx was a Jew.
Judge Longstreet But, my dear Charles, if we concede your argument, there is no solution.
Professor Charles Rankin Well, sir, once again, I differ.
Judge Longstreet Well, what is it, then?
Professor Charles Rankin Annihilation. Down to the last babe in arms.
Mary Longstreet Oh, Charles, I can't imagine you're advocating a ].
[[w:Carthaginian peace|Carthaginian peace]
Professor Charles Rankin Well, as an historian, I must remind you that the world hasn't had much trouble from ] in the past 2,000 years.
[[w:Ancient Carthage|Carthage]
A Deadly Confrontation in the Woods
Mary Longstreet I came to kill you.
Professor Charles Rankin No, no, Mary, it's you that's going to die. You were meant to fall through that ladder.
Mary Longstreet You're going to fall. I don't mind if I take you with me.
Professor Charles Rankin You are a fool. They've searched the woods. I watched them. Here, like God, looking at little ants. I'll hide in the woods. They won't search there again. In a day or two, they'll be sure I got out of town.
Mary Longstreet When they find me, they'll know you're still here.
Professor Charles Rankin But, darling, you're on the verge of a breakdown. Now you've cracked. Why else would you leave your bed, climb to an empty church tower in the dead of night? Any child could see you'd wind up killing yourself. Killing is what led you here. It won't help you now.
Recognizing the Hidden Threats Among Us
Mary Longstreet Mr. Wilson, I've never... I've never so much as even seen a Nazi.
Mr. Wilson Well, you might without your realizing it. They look like other people and act like other people - when it's to their benefit.
Unity in Faith Amidst Conflict
Berengaria, Princess of Navarre We've been blind. We were proud dearest when we took the cross in our pride, we fought to conquer Jerusalem. We tried to ride through blood to the Holy Place of God. And now... now we suffer.
Saladin, Sultan of Islam The Holy City of Allah.
Berengaria, Princess of Navarre What if we call him Allah or God? Shall men fight because they travel different roads to him? There is only one God.