Ben Hawkins quotes from Carnivàle

Ben Hawkins

I ain't here to play games with someone hiding behind some curtain.

Best keep a civil tongue in your head, boy.

Ben Hawkins

Who are you?

Management

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.

What if she's dead?

Ben Hawkins

If she's dead… then God help 'em all in this valley. Every single last one of 'em.