Cosmo I cannot kill my friend. [to his henchmen] Kill my friend.
Played by Ben Kingsley 
Sneakers (1992) · 15 quotes
Sneakers (1992) · 15 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Sneakers (1992): in 5 of its 15 quotes
Most scenes with: Bishop (3)
What's wrong with this country, Marty? Money. You taught me that. Evil defense contractors had it, noble causes did not. Politicians are bought and sold like so much chattel. Our problems multiply. Pollution, crime, drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair; we throw gobs of money at them! The problems always get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it.
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1 quote Cosmo Scenes with Cosmo
3 scenes Cosmo There I was in prison, and one day I helped some nice older gentlemen make some free telephone calls. They turned out to be... let us say, good family men.
Organized crime?
Cosmo Ha, don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.
Cosmo In prison I learned that everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality...
...but the perception of reality.
Cosmo Posit: people think a bank might be financially shaky.
Consequence: people start to withdraw their money.
Cosmo Result: pretty soon it is financially shaky.
Conclusion: you can make banks fail.
Cosmo Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger.
Stock market?
Cosmo Yes.
Currency market?
Cosmo Yes.
Commodities market?
Cosmo Yes.
Small countries?
Cosmo With luck, I might even be able to crash the whole damned system. Destroy all records of ownership. Think of it, Marty. No more rich people, no more poor people, everybody's the same, isn't that what we said we always wanted?
Cos, you haven't gone crazy on me, have you?
Cosmo Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?
Cosmo [Cosmo has just forced Martin Bishop at gunpoint to give him the box]
You could have had the power.
I don't want it.
Cosmo Don't you know the places we can go with this?
Yeah, I do. There's nobody there.
Cosmo Exactly! The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money, it's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.
I don't care. [walks away]
Cosmo I don't expect other people to understand this but I do expect you to understand this. We started this journey together.
It wasn't a journey, Cos. It was a prank.
Cosmo There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!
If I were you, I'd destroy that thing.
Cosmo Don't go. [aims at Bish's head as he prepares to go down the ladder] Don't go.
You do what you have to do, Cos, but if you want to stop me, you'll have to pull the trigger. You. [leaves]
