I think the hazards will be greater if she sees you. You'll invite her to break rules, because you look on rules as things invented for suckers. You think the guy who gets away with things is smart.

— Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde)

9 seconds sound clip from the Shockproof (1949) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:19:01.190 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- All right, if you care about Jenny as much as you seem to, you'll cooperate from now on, or it's going to be just too bad.

- What am I expected to do?

- Leave her alone!

- Has it occurred to you that you're making the conditions unnecessarily difficult?

- Jenny cares for me.

- You're setting up a situation full of hazards and temptations.

- I'm aware of that.

- I think the hazards will be greater if she sees you. You'll invite her to break rules, because you look on rules as things invented for suckers. You think the guy who gets away with things is smart.

- What if I do stay away? She'll start seeing me again when she's free. She'll be as badly off as ever by your standards.

- Well, I'm counting on her forgetting you. I'm counting on her meeting some normal, decent people.

- And I'm counting on her getting over a feeling of gratitude to you, of loyalty, of...

- You mean of love, don't you? She didn't get over it in five years.

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