2 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:35:04.307 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and immane interwoven, interacting, multi-variate multinational dominion of dollars. Petrol dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels.
- It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.
- That is the natural order of things today.
- That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today.
- And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone.
- Am I getting it through to you, Mr. Beale?
- You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy.
- There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT and T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
- What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute price-cost probabilities of transactions and investments...
- We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.
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