Rico Dredd quotes from Judge Dredd (1995)

View Quote Guilt, and innocence, is a matter of timing.

View Quote [When the Aspen Penal Colony warden asks him what the meaning of life is] It ends.

View Quote [Picking up a Lawgiver, which a merchant has warned him can't be used by anyone but a judge] Gee, how do you like that? I must be a judge.

View Quote You want fear? I'm fear. You want chaos? I'm the chaos. You want a beginning? Here - I am the new beginning!

View Quote [After slaughtering the entire Council of Judges] Now who says politics is boring?

View Quote Judge Griffin: Rico! Dredd got away from the hunters.
Rico Dredd: Well, he's about to be seriously outnumbered. Right, Central?
Central: Affirmative, Judge Rico. The new DNA sample has been multiplexed and the gametes are already dividing.
Judge Griffin: New sample?!
Rico Dredd: You left the DNA in there for over 30 years. Sooner or later, somebody's gonna clean out the fridge.
Judge Griffin: That sample was created from the finest specimens on the Council of Judges! What did you replace it with? (realizing) No...my God...
Rico Dredd: You should congratulate me right now, 'cause I'm about to be a daddy. You're being very, very rude.
Judge Griffin: You don't know what you're doing!
Rico Dredd: The next batch of Janus Judges are not going to be the puppets that you want! They're gonna be my brothers and sisters! And mine to control!
Judge Griffin: I can't let you do this. You're both insane! I have to stop- (turns and raise his pistol at Rico)
(A.B.C. Robot disarms Griffin and hangs him up by the arms)
Judge Griffin: CENTRALLLL... HELP MEEEE!!
Central: I'm sorry, Chief Justice, the A.B.C. robot is not tied into my main processor.
Rico Dredd: That's right, Griff. You gotta get with this high-tech stuff. Robot, rip his arms and legs off.
Judge Griffin: NOOOO!
Rico Dredd: And you save his head for last. I don't want him to miss a thing! Anything!

View Quote Rico Dredd: You know, I never understood that. Why did you judge me? Why did you judge me?
Joseph Dredd: You killed innocent people!
Rico Dredd: The means to an end!
Joseph Dredd: You started a massacre!
Rico Dredd: I caused a revolution!
Joseph Dredd: [Yelling] You betrayed the law!
Rico Dredd: [Mockingly] LAAAAW! I BETRAYED THIS! Your council's experiment, which failed in you! I was your brother, your blood, your friend. Who betrayed who? When are you going to stop being a goddamn slave and grow up? That's your birthright! That's your family! I'm your family! I'm the only family you ever had! Now choose!
Joseph Dredd: The best thing you could do is kill me.
Rico Dredd: ...Why?
Joseph Dredd: Because it's your only chance...'brother'.

View Quote Rico Dredd: [last words] Now, Joseph Dredd, I hereby judge you. To the charge of betraying your own flesh...guilty. To the charge of being human, when we could have been GODS...guilty. The sentence is death.
Joseph Dredd: Don't miss.
Lawgiver: Lethal rounds exhausted.