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Quotes from The Gladiator...

"People should know when they're conquered."

"Would you, Quintus? Would I?"​

"Strength and Honor."
-- General Maximus

"At my signal, unleash Hell."
-- General Maximus

"Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops.
Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.
Hold the line! Stay with me!
If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields
With the sun on your face, do not be troubled.
For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!
Brothers, what we do in life ... echoes in eternity."
-- General Maximus

"Roma Victor!"
-- General Maximus

"Where do you stand, General? Emperor or Senate?"

"The soldier has the advantage
Of being able to look his enemies
In the eye, Senator."​

"I have seen much of the rest of the world.
It is brutal and cruel and dark.
Rome is the light."
-- General Maximus

"When a man sees his end,
He wants to know there was some purpose to his life."
-- Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Caesar

"Ancestors, I ask for your guidance.
Blessed Mother, come to me with the gods' desire for my future.
Blessed Father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword.
Whisper to them I live only to hold them again.
Ancestors, I honor you
And will try to live with the dignity you taught me."
-- General Maximus's evening prayer

"Caesar shall do all that Rome requires."
-- Lucilla

"I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob.
Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted.
Take away their freedom and still they'll roar.
The beating heart of Rome...
Is not the marble of the Senate.
It's the sand of the Colosseum.
He'll bring them death,
And they will love him for it."
-- Senator Gracchus

"The Colosseum.
Oh, you should see the Colosseum, Spaniard.
Fifty thoussand Romans...
Watching ... every moment of your sword.
Willing you to make the killer blow.
The silence before you strike...
And the noise afterwards,
It rise up like a storm
As if you were the thunder god himself."
-- Proximo

"Then, listen to me. Learn from me.
I wasn't the best because I killed quickly.
I was the best because of crowd loved me.
Win the crowd, and you'll win your freedom."

"I will win the crowd.
I will give them something they have never seen before."​

"So, Spaniard, we shall go to Rome together...
And have bloody adventures!
And the Great [bleep] will suckle on us
Until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more
And then, when enough men have died,
Perhaps, you will have your freedom."
-- Proximo

"The gods have spared you. Don't you understand?
Today I saw a slave become more powerful
Than the Emperor of Rome."

"The gods have spared me? I am at their mercy,
With the power only to amuse a mob."​

"You have a great name.
He must kill your name
Before he kills you."
-- Gladiator Juba

"I don't pretend to be a man of the people, Senator.
But I do try to be a man for the people."
-- Senator Gracchus

"We mortals are but shadows and dust."
-- Proximo

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