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Equilibrium

Brandt: You clean, we'll sweep.

Brandt: I told you I would make my career with you, Preston.

Brandt: Cleric, I can only hope one day to be as uncompromising as you.

DuPont: And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance are now its destroyer and along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... Entirely without incident.
John Preston: No...
[Polygraph goes dead]
Technician: Oh... Shit!
John Preston: Not with out incident.

DuPont: Be careful Preston. You're treading on my dreams.

Brandt: Mind the uniform Cleric.
[unsheathes a katana]
Brandt: I plan to be wearing it for a long time.

DuPont: Wait! Wait! Look at me. Look at me. I'm life. I live... I breathe... I feel. Now that you know it, can you really take it? Is it really worth the price?
[Preston sees a flash of Mary's face]
John Preston: I'd pay it gladly.

Mary: Let me ask you something. Why are you alive?
John Preston: I live to safeguard the continuity of this society, to serve Libria.
Mary: It's circular. You exist to continue your existence. What's the point?
John Preston: What's the point of your existence?
Mary: To feel! 'Cause you have 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.

Partridge: But I being poor have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

[Emotion is a crime.]
Robbie Preston: I saw a boy crying today at school. He didn't no anyone saw. But I saw. Should I report him?
John Preston: Unquestionably.

Brandt: I'm not feeling! He is the one who's feeling!

DuPont: You really should learn how to knock.