Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 quotes

Taylor, they've got a bomb. An atomic bomb. It's operational. They intend to use it.

What type is it?

I don't know what type. I've never seen that design before.

Didn't you see a serial number?

No. No numbers. Just some letters on one of the fins. Greek letters. Alpha, and...

...and Omega.

What?!

The doomsday bomb. Another lovely souvenir from the 20th Century. They weren't satisfied with a bomb that could knock out a city. They finally built one with a cobalt casing, all in the sweet name of peace.

Those bloody fools! They don't know what they've got. They pray to the damn thing! If they shoot it off at some of those apes, it could set off a chain reaction in the whole atmosphere.

Burn the planet to a cinder. How's that for your ultimate weapon?

Zaius...

Zaius

Taylor!

It's doomsday. The end of the world. Help me!

Zaius

You ask me to help you?! Man is evil! Capable of nothing but destruction!

You... bloody... bastard...

In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star. And one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.

Mendez

This is the instrument of my god.

He can speak!

Ursus

Your god, huh? Sargent. [An ape soldier pulls out a machine gun and shoots Mendez dead] Your god didn't save you, did he? Huh? [pulls out his own machine gun and begins shooting the bomb]

Zaius

Ursus! Ursus, are you mad?! That weapon was built by man. You can't shoot it down with only a clip of bullets!

Ursus

If we can't shoot it down, we'll pull it down! Ropes! Block and tackle! Get on it!

Zaius

But you don't know what you're doing! It'll kill us all!

Dr. Zaius

Well, General, I still think you're being hasty.

General Ursus

No, Doctor. Decisive. Now we invade or we starve. It's as simple as that.

Dr. Zaius

And as dangerous.

General Ursus

What is more dangerous than famine, Doctor?

Dr. Zaius

The unknown.

Ursus

It is our holy duty to put our feet upon it, to enter it, to put the mark of our guns and our wheels, and our flags upon it. To expand the boundaries of our ineluctable power. And to invade!

Cornelius

Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him (drive him back into his jungle lair) for he is the harbinger of death.

Mendez

Behold the truth that abides in us. Reveal that truth unto that Maker.

Ursus

Brutal butchery! I swear those responsible shall pay with torture and with death!

Mendez

Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.

Ursus

He bleeds! The Lawgiver bleeds!

Mendez

He descendeth from the outermost part of Heaven and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. Their is neither speech, nor language, yet His voice is heard among them.

Ursus

I can't order them to do what the Lawgiver has forbidden! Ape shall not kill ape.

Mendez

Let everyone go to his private shelter. Empty the streets. There to find the city of the dead. May the Blessing of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend on us all. This day and forever more.

Mendez

O Mighty and Everlasting Bomb, who came down among us to make Heaven under Earth, lighten our darkness. O instrument of God, grant us thy peace.

Ursus

Our great Lawgiver tells us that never, never will the human have the ape's divine faculty for being able to distinguish between evil and good. The only good human is a dead human! But those fortunate enough to remain alive will have the privilege of being used by our revered Minister of Science, the good Dr. Zaius.