Village of the Damned (1995) - Quotes

Warning Signs of Innocent Faces

Taglines: Beware the Children

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Defiance Against Unquestioned Authority

Jill McGowan: I'm not lettin you go.

David McGowan: You haven't been given an option...

Jill McGowan: Have you?

Jill McGowan: You know, you don't always have to do everything they say.

David McGowan: We are the same.

Jill McGowan: [smiles sadly, close to tears] No, you're not! You're David, you're different!

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Emotional Connections and Their Consequences

Mara Chaffee: You are thinking of the one who died.

David McGowan: She was to be my partner

Mara Chaffee: Yes it's true. Without a mate you are of less importance to us, and your development of emotions is disturbing. We can't leave you behind, David. It's time we resolved this.

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Survival and Conflict in a Divided World

Dr. Alan Chaffee: Another man is dead. Why do you hate us so much, Mara?

Mara Chaffee: It isn't a matter of hate. It is a biological obligation. You are thinking of what happened to the others. Then our actions shouldn't surprise you. We have to survive no matter what the cost; we are the only ones left now.

Dr. Alan Chaffee: I don't see why we can't reach an understanding. Why can't we just live together?

Mara Chaffee: If we coexist, we shall dominate you. That is inevitable. Eventually you will try to eliminate us. We are all creatures of the life force. Now it has set us at one another to see who will survive.

Dr. Alan Chaffee: That's a cruel sport.

Mara Chaffee: Life is cruelty. We all feed on each other, exploit each other in some way to survive.

Dr. Alan Chaffee: I don't agree with you. I think that adaptation is the key to survival. Cooperation and symbiosis... and compassion.

Mara Chaffee: Why do you think your own survival depends upon emotion from us? Should we pity you? Empathize with your plight?

Dr. Alan Chaffee: You should feel! You should feel something! Without feelings, you're nothing. You're just second-rate mimics of a higher organism. That's right, higher organisms. We're your superiors in our capacity to love. Without compassion, you're a doomed species.

Mara Chaffee: Emotion is irrelevant. It is not our nature.

Dr. Alan Chaffee: [looks back at David] Well, I'm not so sure you're right about that, Mara.

Mara Chaffee: Still you are aware of the others so you must be in some basic sense aware of who... what we are.

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The Complexity of Unspoken Thoughts

Dr. Susan Verner: What can you read that's in my head?

Mara Chaffee: Everything that is active in your mind. However, the path that leads to the speaking process eludes us. Why to you speak some thoughts but not others?

Dr. Susan Verner: Wouldn't it be a noisy world if we all said what we thought?

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The Nature of Humanity Questioned

Reverend George: They have the look of man... but not the nature of mankind.

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Understanding Empathy and Shared Pain

David McGowan: Why should I be experiencing emotion at this moment? What is that word you're thinking? What is empathy?... So, if I have felt pain, I should be able to identify with others who feel pain?

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