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You're to persuade your people that their resistance to Rome is stupid. It is worse than stupid, futile! For it can end in only one way, extinction for your people!

9 seconds sound clip from the Ben-Hur (1959) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:27:19.747 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Our roads and our ships connect every corner of the earth.

- Roman law, architecture, literature are the glory of the human race.

- I believe in the future of my people.

- Of course you do. And you can help them.

- How?

- You're an aristocrat. Your name and your family's name is honored. You're a prince among your people.

- You're rich and you're powerful. Your reputation is stainless. And the people would listen if you were to speak out against rebellion.

- You're to persuade your people that their resistance to Rome is stupid. It is worse than stupid, futile! For it can end in only one way, extinction for your people!

- I'm against violence. Everyone knows this. I've spoken against it. I shall do so again.

- Then we're agreed!

- Now, when can I come to see your family?

- We had hoped tomorrow.

- Good.

- And now for our toast. It's dreadful wine, by the way.

- It's especially fermented for the Roman army.

- You're very cruel to your conquerors.

- It's an insane world. But in it there is one sanity: The loyalty of old friends.

[...]

Ben-Hur (1959) Sound Clip

Ben-Hur (1959) film poster

Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1959 film Ben-Hur.

Actors: Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur), Jack Hawkins (Quintus Arrius), Haya Harareet (Esther), Stephen Boyd (Messala), Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)

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