Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Quotes

  • Woman: [referring to cigarettes] Funny, now that I know these things won't kill me, I don't enjoy them.

  • MacDonald: Caesar... Caesar! This is not how it was meant to be.

    Caesar: In your view or mine?

    MacDonald: Violence prolongs hate, hate prolongs violence. By what right are you spilling blood?

    Caesar: By the slave's right to punish his persecutor.

    MacDonald: I, a descendant of slaves, am asking you to show humanity.

    Caesar: But, I was not born human.

    MacDonald: I know. The child of the evolved apes.

    Caesar: Whose children shall rule the earth.

    MacDonald: For better or for worse?

    Caesar: Do you think it could be worse?

    MacDonald: Do you think this riot will win freedom for all your people? By tomorrow...

    Caesar: By tomorrow it will be too late. Why a tiny, mindless insect like the emperor moth can communicate with another over a distance of 80 miles...

    MacDonald: An emperor ape might do slightly better?

    Caesar: Slightly? What you have seen here today, apes on the 5 continents will be imitating tomorrow.

    MacDonald: With knives against guns? With kerosene cans against flamethrowers?

    Caesar: Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of Man's downfall - the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you... now!

  • Lisa: N-No...

  • [last lines]

    Caesar: But now... now we will put away out hatred. Now we will put down our weapons. We have passed through the Night of the Fires. And who were our masters are now our servants. And we, who are not human, can afford to be humane. Destiny is the will of God. And, if it is man's destiny to be dominated, it is God's will that he be dominated with compassion and understanding. So, cast out your vengeance. Tonight, we have seen the birth of the Planet of the Apes!

  • Announcer: Ape Management... is in the hands of the apes.

  • Caesar: The King is dead. Long live the King! Tell me Breck, before you die - how do we differ from the dogs and cats that you and your kind used to love? Why did you turn us from pets into slaves?

    Breck: Because your kind were once our ancestors. Because man was born of apes, and there's still an ape curled up inside of every man. You're the beast in us that we have to whip into submission. You're the savage that we need to shackle in chains. You taint us, Caesar. You poison our guts. When we hate you, we're hating the dark side of ourselves.

  • Breck: Ah, it seems the little fella's not quite so bright after all.

    MacDonald: No, but then brightness has never been encouraged among slaves.

  • MacDonald: How do you propose to gain this freedom?

    Caesar: By the only means left to us. Revolution.

    MacDonald: But it's doomed to failure!

    Caesar: Perhaps. This time.

    MacDonald: And the next.

    Caesar: Maybe.

    MacDonald: And you'll keep trying?

    Caesar: You, above everyone else should understand, we cannot be free until we have power! How else can we achieve it?

  • [first lines]

    Armando: [to Caesar, whom he has on a leash] Come! Come!

    Guard: Do you have authorization to dress him like that?

    Armando: [hands over papers] Oh, yes, Sir.

    Guard: A circus ape, huh?

    Armando: And the only one to ever have been trained in bareback riding in the entire history of the circus!

  • Caesar: You human bastards!

  • [repeated line]

    Various slave owners: Do!

Extended Reading
  • Daron 2022-03-14 14:12:30

    A relatively independent one in terms of plot, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is a remake of it. The first half of the film has a solid foundation, and the later war of the apes is too long and messes up the rhythm. The latest remake does a lot better than that. The actor who plays the chimpanzee Caesar is definitely better than Mr. Liu Xiaoling Tong.

  • Colt 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    The ideology of this work has directly changed from the "left-leaning balance beam" of the previous work to the black threat theory, continuing the black panic in "Planet of the Apes" (black people will never be satisfied, as long as they have rights, they will overthrow everything we built Civilization), the scene of the riot at the end that can be rendered and the general police smashing into flesh is undoubtedly deepening this panic. Interestingly, in this film, it is the black who teach the skills of the orangutan slave, the black who speaks to the orangutan, and the master and the The managers are all white, and the orangutan has become a substitute for black people. However, this film also chose the balance beam style of "Escape from the Planet of the Apes". (Black people) say this kind of words, which is panic for white people, but it is inspiration for black people who fought for equality at that time, but the dialogue between Caesar and McConaughey at the end became the previous work "Wasn". The portrayal of orangutans divided into three, six and nine classes”, the “orangutans” who have adapted to the civilized society just want to have equal rights, while the wild orangutans want to occupy the whole world by armed force. Is the former more numerous or the latter? ? The results speak for themselves