Zardoz (1974)

Share this quote on facebook You have penetrated me. There is no escape. You are within me. Come into my centre... Come into the centre of the crystal.

Share this quote on facebook Friend: Arthur! We've all been used...
Arthur Frayn: ...and reused...
Friend: ...and abused...
Arthur Frayn: ...and amused! [laughs]

Share this quote on facebook Zardoz: Zardoz speaks to you, his chosen ones. You have been raised up from brutality, to kill the brutals who multiply, and are legion. To this end, Zardoz your god gave you the gift of the gun. The gun is good.
Exterminators: The gun is good.
Zardoz: The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!

Share this quote on facebook Arthur Frayn: It was I! I bred you! I led you!
Zed: And I have looked into the face of the force which put the idea in your head. You are bred and led yourself.

Share this quote on facebook Zed: It’s a trick! A trick!
May: What was a trick? Tell me.
Zed: Zardoz said "stop". He said, "no more".
May: No more what?
Zed: No more killing.
May: He told you to take prisoners?
Zed: Yes.
May: To make slaves?
Zed: Yes.
May: To cultivate instead of kill?
Zed: Yes.
May: To grow wheat?
Zed: Yes!
May: Did you need wheat?
Zed: No! We ate meat! Zardoz betrayed us. We were hunters, not farmers!

Share this quote on facebook Zed: How did it come about, the Vortex? How did it start?
Friend: [referring to the Renegades] They did it. They were the scientists, the best in the world. But they were middle-aged, too conditioned to mortality. They went renegade. We were their offspring and we were born into vortex life. [...] We applied ourselves to the unsolved mysteries of the universe, but even with infinite time and the help of the Tabernacle, Our minds were not up to it. We failed. And now we’re trapped by our own devices. There is no exit.

Share this quote on facebook Beyond 1984, Beyond 2001, Beyond Love, Beyond Death.

Share this quote on facebook I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

Share this quote on facebook Into a world of eternal life, he brought the gift of death.