Paisan (1946)

William Tubbs: Captain Bill Martin - Catholic Chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano)

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• Captain Bill Martin - the catholic chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano) : I've never examined their consciences. I've never discussed this with them. I've never asked them anything, because I never felt I could judge them. I know them too well. They're good friends. Perhaps you, here mind this peace, this atmosphere of serene meditation, consider me guilty. I don't feel guilty. My conscience is clear.

• Captain Bill Martin - the catholic chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano) : I can't help thinking that by the time this monastery was built, why, America hadn't even been discovered as of yet. It was an immense wilderness. These walls, these olive trees, that church bell, was already here. This time, this time of the evening, 500 years ago. Everything in the same soft color.

  Captain Feldman, the jewish chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano) : Is that from Shakespeare?

  Captain Bill Martin - the catholic chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano) : No. Captain Bill Martin.

• Captain Bill Martin - the catholic chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano) : He told me that he always wanted this vocation. That since he was 10, he always wanted to enter this monastery.

  Captain Jones, the protestant chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano) : I think one can really be in peace with his Lord without relieving himself from the world. After all, it was created for us. The world is our parish.

  Captain Feldman, the jewish chaplain (episode V: Appennino Emiliano) : How can they judge us in life if they don't know what it's all about.