Father quotes from Equilibrium (2002)

Father

Libra, I congratulate you. At last peace reigns in the heart of man. At last war is but a word whose meaning fades from our understanding. At last, we are whole. Librians, there is a disease in the heart of man. Its symptom is hate. Its symptom is anger. Its symptom is rage. Its symptom is war. The disease is human emotion. But Libria, I congratulate you, for there is a cure for this disease. At the cost of the dizzying highs of human emotion, we have suppressed its abysmal lows. And you, as a society, have embraced this cure: Prozium. Now we are at peace with ourselves and human kind is one. War is gone. Hate, a memory. We are our own conscience now, and it is this conscience that guides us to rate EC-10, for emotional content, all those things that might tempt us to feel, again, and destroy them. Librians, you have won. Against all odds, and your own natures. You, have, survived.

Father

...a single inescapable fact—that mankind united with infinitely greater purpose in pursuit of war...than he ever did in pursuit of peace.

Father

Libria... Awake. Awaken to triumph again in the face of yet another day, another step in our unified march into the unwavering purpose...move ahead together into the certainty of our collective destiny.

Father

...intrinsically, humans, as creatures of the Earth were drawn inherently always back to one thing—war. And thus we seek to correct not the symptom but the disease itself. We have sought to shrug off individuality, replacing it with conformity. Replacing it... with sameness... with unity, allowing each man, woman, and child in this great society to lead identical lives.

Father

The concept of identical environment construction allows each of us to head confidently into each moment with all the secure knowledge it has been lived before.

Father

Two millennia ago...in his conquest of the known world, Alexander the Great slaughtered more than one million human beings. Three centuries later, purely out of jealousy, Gaius Germanicus, "Caligula", murdered his own sister, impregnated with his own child.

Father

....The revolutionary precept of the hate crime.

Don't do it. He'll shoot us in the back.

If I was going to shoot you I'd shoot you in the face.

There's no war. No murder.

Partridge

What is it you think we do?

Mary

Let me ask you something. Why are you alive?

I'm alive... I live... to safeguard the continuity of this great society. To serve Libria.

Mary

It's circular. You exist to continue your existence. What's the point?

What's the point of your existence?

Mary

To feel. 'Cause you've never done it, you can never know it. But it's as vital as breath. And without it, without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock... ticking.

Brandt

What are you doing?

I'm rearranging my desk.

Brandt

You didn't like the way it was before?

I had no feelings about it. I'm merely attempting to optimize.

DuPont

Wait, Wait, look at me, look at me, I'm life, I live, I-I breathe, I feel. Now that you know it, can you really take it? Is it really worth the price?

I pay it gladly.

Every time we come from the Nethers to the city it reminds me of why we do what we do.

Partridge

It does?

I beg your pardon?

Partridge

It does.

John?

Yes?

I saw Bobbie Taylor crying today. He didn't know, but I saw. Do you think I should report him?

Unquestionably.

Mary

You can't do this. You cannot do this!

Tetragrammaton. There's nothing we can't do.

We've been watching you, Preston.

You're Jurgen.

You're feeling. [pauses] Do you know why you came?

But the first thing you learn about emotion is that it has its price. A complete paradox. But without restraint, without control, emotion is chaos.

But how is that different-

The difference being is that when we want to feel, we can.