“We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after...” – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie, and we have to be merciful, for those who lie. Those nabobs. I hate them. I do hate them.

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