Lieutenant Hirth: The Eskimos are racially as low as Negroes. The Factor: What's the matter with Negroes?... Lieutenant Hirth: They're semi-apes. Only one degree above the Jews.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diamond, the only trouble with you is you'd like to be me. You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix. You can't; th...at's impossible. You think it's money; it's not. It's personality. You haven't got it, Lieutenant. You're a cop. Slow. Steady. Intelligent. With a bad temper, and a gun under your arm. And with a big yen for a girl he can't have. First is first, and second is nobody.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever else it may be--stimulus, tranquilizer, aural nipple, too of executives, Muzak is basically trivializing. It is not simpl...y that it relegates music to the province of wallpaper. Background music never need be banal. When it is used in support of drama, it can greatly enhance without harming itself. Mozart was entirely amenable to such films as Elvira Madigan and The French Lieutenant's Woman; Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote aptly for The Invaders, Arnold Bax for Oliver Twist, Sergei Prokofiev for Lieutenant Kije and Alexander Nevsky, Dmitri Shostakovich for others. In such uses, music collaborates with artists, it becomes an art among arts. But Muzak collaborates chiefly with management: it is used as an aural smoke-screen, a form of jamming, a hormone in the henhouse, an emollient in cemeteries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who sees God's face, that is self life, must die; What a death were it then to see God die!... It made his own lieutenant, Nature, shrink; It made his footstool crack, and the sun wink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lieutenant, I'd like to point out to you that I don't have to put up with this crap from you. I'm not in your two-bit army, I'm in... our two-bit army.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can only be one Commander-in-Chief. In these times, crises cannot be managed and wars cannot be waged by committee. To the e...ars of the world, the President speaks for the nation. While he is of course ultimately accountable to Congress, the courts, and the people, he and his emissaries must not be handicapped in advance in their relations with foreign governments as has sometimes happened in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Hear me," he said to the white commander. "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. Our chiefs are dead; the little children are fre...ezing. My people have no blankets, no food. From where the sun stands, I will fight no more forever."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friends you want a speech, but I cannot make one at this time. I must have opportunity to think. Undue importance might be give...n to what I said. However, there is one thing I will do. You have a band with you. There's one piece of music I've always liked. Heretofore, it hasn't seemed the proper thing to use it in the North. But now by virtue of my prerogative as President and Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy, I declare it contraband of war and our lawful prize. I ask the band to play "Dixie."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »