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You can hear this line at 01:38:46.906 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- The people spoke, the people won. It was a radiant eruption of democracy.
- But I think that was it, fellas. That sort of thing is not likely to happen again.
- Because at the bottom of all our terrified souls, we know that democracy is a dying giant, a sick, sick, dying, decaying, political concept writhing in its final pain.
- I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power. The United States is the richest and most powerful, the most advanced country in the world, light years ahead of any other country.
- And I don't mean the communists are gonna take over the world because the communists are deader than we are.
- What is finished is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it.
- It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished. Because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals.
- It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized whiter than white steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings and as replaceable as piston rods.
- Well, the time has come to say is dehumanization such a bad word? Whether it's good or bad, that's what is so.
- The whole world is becoming humanoid, creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country, so we're getting there first.
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