For Pete's sake, I'm not asking you to walk the land in sackcloth and ashes preaching the Armageddon. You're on TV, man.

— Howard Beale (Peter Finch)

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You can hear this line at 00:44:30.426 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- And I said, What's this, the Burning Bush? For God's sake, I'm not Moses. And the voice said to me, And I'm not God. What has that got to do with it?

- And the voice said to me: We're not talking about eternal truth or absolute truth or ultimate truth. We're talking about impermanent, transient, human truth.

- I don't expect you people to be capable of truth, but goddammit, at least you're capable of self-preservation.

- And I said, Why me? And the voice said, Because you're on television, dummy.

- You have 40 million Americans listening to you and after this show, you could have 50 million.

- For Pete's sake, I'm not asking you to walk the land in sackcloth and ashes preaching the Armageddon. You're on TV, man.

- So I thought about it for a moment and then I said, Okay.

- Close the door, Harry.

- Howard, I'm taking you off the air. I think you're having a breakdown. Require treatment.

- This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity.

[...]

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