Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Paul Williams: Virgil

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• Virgil : All knowledge is for good. Only the use to which you put it can be good or evil.

• Virgil : Teacher only reverted to type under provocation. He... he spoke like a slavemaster in the old days of our servitude when we were conditioned to mechanical obedience. He, uh, he uttered a negative, uh, imperative.

  Caesar : Could you put that into words which even Caesar could understand?

  Virgil : Uh, he said, "No, Aldo, no!"

• Caesar : Can one murder be avenged by another?

  Virgil : Perhaps only the future will tell.

• Virgil : The greatest danger of all is that danger never ends.

• MacDonald : If we appear to be lacking in gratitude, Caesar, what have we to be grateful for? If you mean to set us free, then free us completely.

  Caesar : What do you mean?

  MacDonald : We are not your children, Caesar. We have a destiny too... as equals.. respecting each other, living together with love.

  Caesar : Love? The human way is violence and death.

  Virgil : Aldo wasn't human... was he, Caesar?

  Caesar : Virgil. You are a good and wise ape.

  Lisa : And you, Caesar, are a good and wise king.

• Mandemus : There. Every weapon is back in its proper place. Caesar, I want to ask a favor. This armory's been my home for 27 years.

  Caesar : You may live in it for the rest of your days.

  Mandemus : But I don't want to live in it. Oh, no. Now that the danger is over... I wanna see it destroyed, blown up.

  Virgil : The greatest danger of all is that danger never ends.

  Caesar : And so, Mandemus... we must be patient and wait.