Management quotes from Carnivàle

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Yes, but to restore a life you must take a life.

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You must act as a man, not a boy. A boy mends the broken bones of his playmates, and resurrects little kittens for his own amusement. This is different, this is a woman's life. A human life. To restore it you must take life… with deliberation. You must choose the life you take — that is the way of our kind.

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Another step and I will kill you where you stand… then what will become of your friend, I wonder.

Ben Hawkins

Who are you?

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Someone who understands the life you've led, the questions you have, the torments… Someone who understands what it is to make such a choice. One life for another.

Management

You have made this choice before.

Ben Hawkins

What do you know about that?

Management

I know that you are capable of making such a choice. Capable of saying "this one deserves to live, this one deserves to die".

Ben Hawkins

No, that ain't my place.

Management

If that is true, my friend, then why is such a choice possible? Why are you not like other men, left behind to bury your dead, gnash your teeth and cry out to God, "Why her, Lord, why not another?" The answer is self-evident. It is your place, Ben Hawkins; it cannot be escaped. It can only be accepted… Her life for another's. It is the only way… You may go now.