A scene from Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973
Abe

Gorillas? Aldo, let's start with you.

Aldo

General Aldo!

Abe

With respect, General Aldo, this is barely legible and will have to be written again. Your capital A leans over like a tent in a high wind.
apes laugh in amusement, causing Aldo to sneer

Abe

And your capital K.
Aldo checks

Aldo

Ape shall never kill Abe.
he rips it up

Abe

No, Aldo, no.
the apes gasp in shock

Virgil

Teacher. In all our years of slavery to mankind, the word "No" was the one word we were electrically conditioned to fear. An ape may say "No" to a human, but a human may never again say "No" to an ape. Tell them you're sorry and you can go home while you still got a home to go to. I'll put in a good word for you with Caesar.

Abe

General Aldo... I'm... I'm sorry. The writing you destroyed was by Caesar's son. I did not want you to suffer Caesar's anger.

Aldo

*What do I care for Caesar's anger?! Let me give you a taste of mine!

In this scene

Aldo Claude Akins More Aldo quotes →
Virgil Paul Williams More Virgil quotes →

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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 Can one murder be avenged by another? Virgil Perhaps only the future will tell. Lawgiver We still wait, my children. But as I look at apes and humans living in friendship, in harmony and at peace, now some 600 years after Caesar's death, at least we wait with hope for the future. Perhaps only the dead.
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