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You can hear this line at 01:39:53.471 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered insensate things.
- It was a perfectly admissible argument that Howard Beale advanced in the days that followed. It was, however, also a very depressing one.
- Nobody particularly cared to hear his life was utterly valueless.
- By the end of the first week in June, the Howard Beale Show dropped one point in the ratings and its trend of shares dipped under 48 for the first time since last November.
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