“- Bass: What amused me just then was your concern for my wellbeing in this heat when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers...
- Edwin Epps: The condition of my laborers?
- Bass: It is horrid.
- Edwin Epps: They ain't hired help. They're my property.”
Brad Pitt - Bass
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“- Bass: What right have you to your niggers?
- Edwin Epps: I bought 'em. I paid for 'em.”
Brad Pitt - Bass
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“- Harry Dunne: What's in the briefcase?
- Lloyd Christmas: Man, I would have to be a real lowlife to go rooting around in someone else's private property.
- Harry Dunne: Is it locked?
- Lloyd Christmas: Yeah. Really well.”
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas

“- Solomon Northup: You devil! Sooner or later, somewhere in the course of eternal justice thou shalt answer for this sin!
- Edwin Epps: There is no sin! A man does how he pleases with his property.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“The one characteristic which really makes the Bushmen different from all the other races on earth is that they have no sense of ownership at all. Where they live, there's really nothing you can own: only trees and grass and animals.”
Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator