Allow me to introduce .. The General. All the professor's own work; he gave birth to it and loves it with a passionate love, probably hates it even more. That mass of circuits, my dear fellow, is as revolutionary as nuclear fission. No more wastage in schools: there's no more tedious learning by rote. A brilliantly devised course, delivered by a leading teacher, subliminally learned, checked, and corrected by an infallible authority. And what have we got?
Indeed - knowledgeable cabbages.
[after Number Six stumped the machine, causing it to self destruct] What was the question?
It's insoluble, to man or machine.
W - H - Y - Question mark.
Number Two offered you a deal. Don't you trust him?
I don't trust Number Two. I don't trust you. I don't trust your tame Professor.
Who do you trust, Number Six?
You must think I'm crazy.
B Mrs. Butterworth
Who isn't these days?
You're a stubborn fellow, Number Six.
James, you call me that once again and you're liable for a bout in hospital.
[to Number Six] You resign. You disappear. You return. You spin a yarn that Hans Christian Andersen would reject as a fairy tale.
And they're all... numbers? No names. No names at all?
Numbers in a village that is a complete unit of our own society. A place to put people who can't be kept around. People who know too much or too little. A place with many means of breaking a man.
[about Number Six] Interesting fellow.
He's an old, old, old friend. Who never gives up.
Of course. You can do as you want.
As long as it's what you want.
As long as it is what the majority wants. We're democratic. In some ways.
No game is worth playing if you can't win. That's not very English, I know.
I'm sad, Number Six. I thought you were beginning to...
Be happy. Everything you want is here.
What were you looking at?
Somebody who belongs to my world.
This is your world. I am your world. If you insist on living a dream you may be taken for mad.
Our legal system is unusual.
Three judges decide here.
As in the French Revolution.
They cut through the dead wood, didn't they?
O The Observer
It's the rules. Of the people, by the people, for the people.
It takes on a new meaning.
O The Observer
You're a wicked man.
O The Observer
You have no values.
O The Observer
You won't be helped.
O The Observer
You want to spoil things.
I won't be a goldfish in a bowl.
[referring to the chess game] Why do you use people?
MW Man With Stick
Some psychiatrists say it satisfies the desire for power. The only opportunity one gets here.
That depends what side you're on.
MW Man With Stick
I'm on my side.
MW Man With Stick
You must be new here. In time, most of us join the enemy... against ourselves.
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