Network 1976 - Luis Bunuel - Frank Zappa - John Ruskin - William Shakespeare - W B Yeats - Homer - Oliver Wendell Holmes - John F Kennedy - Soame Jenyns - Thomas Overbury - Cecil Spring-Rice - Passport to Pimlico 1949 - Orson Welles - Maximilien Robespierre - Benjamin Disraeli - Prince Philip - Bill Maher - Edward Abbey - Gilbert K Chesterton - Lord Byron - Laurence Sterne -
41,494. Valhalla, Mr Beale. Please sit down. You have meddled with the primal forces of Nature, Mr Beale. And I won’t have it. Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow. Tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system out of systems. One vast and immune interwoven, interacting, multi-variant, multinational dominion of Dollars. Petro Dollars. Electro Dollars. Multi dollars. Reichmarks. Rins, Rubels, Pounds and Shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of Nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr Beal? You get up on your little twenty-one-inch screen and howl about America and Democracy. There is no America. There is no Democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state – Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr Beal. The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr Beal. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr Beale, to see that perfect world in which there in no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common purpose. In which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided. All anxieties tranquillised. All boredom amused. (Money & Countries & Corporations & United States of America & Business & Companies) Network 1976 Network starring Faye Dunaway & Peter Finch & William Holden & Robert Duvall & Wesley Addy & Ned Beatty & Beatrice Straight & Jordan Charney & William Prince & Lane Smith & Marlene Warfield & Arthur Burghardt, director Sidney Lumet, Jensen to Beale
95,744. God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. (Country & God & Oppression) Luis Bunuel
43,599. You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. (Beer & Country) Frank Zappa
1,155. There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the function of his own life to the utmost, has always the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others. (Life's Like That & Wealth & Country & Philathropy) John Ruskin
68,589. What country, friends, is this? William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night I ii 1 Viola
68,590. That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
– Those dying generations – at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas. W B Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium 1928
68,591. This is the one best omen, to fight in defence of one’s country. Homer, The Iliad
68,592. We pause to … recall what our country has done for each of us and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. Oliver Wendell Holmes, speech 30th May 1884
34,267. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. (Kennedy & United States & Country) John F Kennedy, inaugural address January 1961
68,593. Those who profess outrageous zeal for the liberty and prosperity of their country, and at the same time infringe her laws, affront her religion and debauch her people, are but disposable quacks. Soame Jenyns, A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil 1757
68,594. He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries before his own. Thomas Overbury, Miscellaneous Works 1632
68,595. I vow to thee, my country – all earthly things alove. Cecil Spring-Rice
68,596. Mum wants to know if you’ve got any cod fillets. Passport to Pimlico 1949 starring Margaret Rutherford & Stanley Holloway & Barbara Murray & Betty Warren & Paul Dupuis & John Slater & Roy Carr & Charles Hawtry & Jane Hylton & Malcolm Knight & Raymond Huntley et al, director Henry Cornelius
68,597. They’ll blowing up that bomb tomorrow. ibid. rozzer
68,598. Those in favour of selling this piece of ground ... We’ve got to face economic facts. ibid. council meeting
68,599. Technically these Burgundians are aliens. No no they’re undesirable aliens. ibid. minister and civil servant
68,600. They won’t talk to us till we form a representative committee. ibid. Pimloco bloke
68,601. Barricades up in Pimlico. ibid. newspaper
68,602. Have you anything to declare, madam? Any foodstuffs, livestock, linen or cotton goods? Any muskrats, mealworms, motorcycles, hashish, prepared opium or agricultural machinery? (Country & Customs) ibid. custom’s bloke
68,603. We’re a foreign country now. ibid. Pimlico chief
68,604. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. (Country & Food) Orson Welles
68,605. The king must die so that the country can live. (Country & France & King) Maximilien Robespierre
89,701. An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. (State & Country) Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion
32,129. It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people. (Elizabeth II & Royal Family & Paraguay & Totalitarianism & Democracy & Country) Prince Philip to Paraguay dictator General Stroessner
77,365. The patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? (Patriotism & Criticism & Country) Bill Maher
84,762. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. (Patriot & Country & Government) Mark Twain
38,524. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. (Government & Patriotism & Country) Edward Abbey