“All the world's great civilizations have followed the same path. From bondage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy back to bondage. If we are to be the exception to history, then we must break the cycle, for those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Madeline Carroll - Molly Johnson

“To be affronted by solitude without decadence, or a single material thing to prostitute, it elevates you to a spiritual plane, where I felt the presence of God. Now, there's the God they taught me about at school, and there is the God that's hidden by what surrounds us in this civilization. That's the God that I met on the mountain.”
John Malkovich - Narrator

“One God, that I can understand; but one wife? That is not civilized. It is not generous!”
Hugh Griffith - Sheik Ilderim

“History isn’t kind to men who play God.”
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“That is the kind of woman that makes whole civilizations topple!”

Kathleen Howard - Miss Bragg