Equilibrium Quotes

Partridge I assume you dream Preston?

Partridge It's just a vestigial word for a feeling you've never felt. - After Cleric Preston claims to be sorry

Preston No. Not without incident.

Brandt It's my job to know what you're thinking.

Father Libria, I congratulate you. At last peace reigns in the heart of man. At last war is but a word whose meaning fades from our understanding. At last, we are whole. Librians, there is a disease in the heart of man. Its symptom is hate. Its symptom is anger. Its symptom is rage. Its symptom is war. The disease is human emotion. But Libria, I congratulate you, for there is a cure for this disease. At the cost of the dizzying highs of human emotion, we have suppressed its abysmal lows. And you, as a society, have embraced this cure: Prozium. Now we are at peace with ourselves and human kind is one. War is gone. Hate, a memory. We are our own conscience now, and it is this conscience that guides us to rate EC-10, for emotional content, all those things that might tempt us to feel, again, and destroy them. Librians, you have won. Against all odds, and your own natures. You, have, survived.

Preston Look at you! Look at you...

DuPont You really should learn to knock.

Jurgen We have a network that's larger than you could ever imagine. Instant word comes that Father is dead, that the Council is leaderless. Bombs that have already been planted will be set off at Prozium clinics and factories around Libria. If we can succeed in disrupting the supply for even one day—one day—our cause will be won by human nature itself.

Mary ...without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock ticking.

Preston Then you know what I'm going to do now?

DuPont Take him to the Hall of Destruction for summary judgment and combustion.

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.

Brandt You clean, we'll sweep.

Father ...a single inescapable fact—that mankind united with infinitely greater purpose in pursuit of war...than he ever did in pursuit of peace.

Father ...intrinsically, humans, as creatures of the Earth were drawn inherently always back to one thing—war. And thus we seek to correct not the symptom but the disease itself. We have sought to shrug off individuality, replacing it with conformity. Replacing it... with sameness... with unity, allowing each man, woman, and child in this great society to lead identical lives.

Mary Its circular. You exist to continue your existence. What's the point?

Brandt You ask him for it. (in response to the interrogator's question: "What, would you say, is the easiest way to get a weapon away from a Grammaton Cleric?")

Preston I didn't feel anything.

DuPont The Gun Kata. 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.

DuPont It's not the message that is important but our obedience to it.

Brandt Cleric, I can only hope one day to be as uncompromising as you.

DuPont A nearly unforgivable lapse, Cleric. I trust you'll be more vigilant in the future.

Brandt Mind the uniform, cleric. I plan to be wearing it for a long time... (moments before being killed by Preston)

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. (reading - W.B. Yeats)

Brandt I told you I'd make my career with you, Preston.

DuPont Be careful, Preston. You're treading on my dreams.

Preston I pay it gladly.

Father Libria... Awake. Awaken to triumph again in the face of yet another day,another step in our unified march into the unwavering purpose...move ahead together into the certainty of our collective destiny.

Preston Tetragrammaton. There's nothing we can't do.

Father 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.