Memorable Quotes from Olivier Martinez
1 quoteResponsibility and Justice in Crisis
Mauritius
So, this is how my kindness is repaid? My prison broken into, my guards killed.
Paul
There will always be those that try and take justice into their own hands.
Mauritius
You do not take any responsibility?
Luke
If we were responsible, wouldn't you be in that cell awaiting your own execution?
Mauritius
How can it be that by words alone, you spit in the face of the Emperor? By words alone, you seem to defy Rome itself. Words do not threaten to destroy empires.
Paul
Because perhaps they are not just words, they are the truth of things.
Mauritius
You keep saying truth. Truth. But, it's only a truth according to you. If it were the only truth, everyone would believe it.
Luke
Not so. Christ, who is truth, rose from the dead. Many still do not believe.
Mauritius
Lies, fabrications...
Paul
If Christ had not risen from the dead, then our preaching is useless, and so is our faith.
Mauritius
Oh, you have no doubts at all?
Paul
Men do not die for things they doubt.
Mauritius
You claim you serve a god who is above all other gods, and yet all I see before me is an old man in chains. Your life, a summary of beatings and filthy prison cells.
Paul
I deserve worse, but...there is grace enough for everyone.
Mauritius
To be rich, not poor. To be powerful, not weak. To have slaves and servants, not be one.
Paul
It does not take an intelligent man to look around and know that the world is missing something.
Mauritius
Do not question the greatness of Rome.
Luke
And what of the love for a sick daughter? What does Rome offer her?
Mauritius
Another word and I send you to whatever god you want.
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