We don't know why we're going through all this pointless pain, humiliation and decay, so there better be someone somewhere who does know. That's the God bullshit.

— Howard Beale (Peter Finch)

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8 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:19:07.273 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Am I still on the air?

- If this is how he wants to go out, this is how he goes out.

- Look, Mr. Schumacher's right here. Do you wanna talk to him?

- Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living. And if we can't think up any reasons of our own, we always have the God bullshit.

- Holy Mary, Mother of Christ.

- Yeah, Tom, what is it?

- We don't know why we're going through all this pointless pain, humiliation and decay, so there better be someone somewhere who does know. That's the God bullshit.

- He's saying that life is bullshit and it is, so what are you screaming about?

- Man is a noble creature that can order his own world. Who needs God?

- Well, if there's anybody out there that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me, that man is full of bullshit.

- What's so goddamn funny?

- I can't help it, Harry. It's funny.

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