Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) · 21 quotes
Caesar
Ah, if only my mother and father, whom I was too young to remember... If only they'd lived, perhaps they would have taught me if it was right to kill evil so that good shall prevail.
MacDonald
But you know, Caesar, history shows...
Caesar
Oh no, no, no. That is human history, not ape history. Ape, never kills ape.”
Caesar
We are not your masters.
MacDonald
We're not your equals.
Caesar
MacDonald, I believe that...when you truly grow to know and trust a person,|you cannot help but like him. When we grow to know and trust your people... then we shall all be equals...and remain so until|the end of the world
MacDonald
Which may be sooner than you think.
Caesar
You are such a pessimist! Or a prophet. Now that apes are at the helm... Earth will sail safely through space|until the end of time... and Virgil says time has no end. So, you see, I cannot believe you.
MacDonald
Would you believe it|if you heard it... from the lips of your own parents?
Caesar
Are my parents alive?
MacDonald
No, but their images and their voices are.
Caesar
MacDonald, when you talk about my parents... please do not speak in riddles. I cannot see them.I cannot hear them. Armando's only told me they came out of the future. They cannot give me knowledge.
MacDonald
Caesar, you can see them. You can hear them...and they can give you knowledge.
Caesar
How?
MacDonald
Under the dead city where we once lived... in the archives near the old command post... there are tapes-sealed tapes- Of Cornelius and Zira... being examined by officials of the American government When my brother was Governor Breck's assistant, he told me about them. I know where they are... and I know that they concern Earth's future, from which your parents came.
Caesar
But the city was flattened. The bomb left nothing.
MacDonald
Except, I suspect... the archive section. Indeed, many sections of the underground city... were designed to survive the impact... of a 10-megaton over-blast.
Caesar
Well, then the tapes and pictures of my parents are still down there Oh... Oh, MacDonald... I want to see what they look like. I suppose every orphan does. I want to hear... what they thought and knew.
Virgil
*Ape has never killed ape, let alone an ape child.
apes growl in shock
Virgil
Aldo has killed an ape child. The branch did not break. It was cut with a sword.
apes growl in outrage
Aldo! You..... You killed.
Aldo killed!
more apes growl in righteous anger
Aldo has broken our most sacred law!
Lisa
Our child. He killed our child.
What's the matter with them?
MacDonald
I guess you could say they just joined the human race.
Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape! Ape has killed ape!
Apes repeat the chanting as they approach towards him.
Aldo climbs a tree, pursued by Caesar
Caesar
You murdered my son! You murdered my son! You murdered my son!
MacDonald
If we appear to be lacking in gratitude, Caesar, what have we to be grateful for? If you mean to set us free then free us completely.
Caesar
What do you mean?
MacDonald
We are not your children, Caesar. We have a destiny too... as equals.. respecting each other, living together with love.
Caesar
Love? The human way is violence and death.
Virgil
Aldo wasn't human... was he, Caesar?
Caesar
Virgil. You are a good and wise ape.
Lisa
And you, Caesar,|are a good and wise king.
