The future. The future pays for it.

— Lucilla (Connie Nielsen)

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6 seconds sound clip from the Gladiator (2000) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:23:33 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- But what is in his mind? That's what I trouble myself with.

- He spends all his days singularly obsessed, planning the festival to honor your father.

- He neglects even the most fundamental task of government.

- So just what is he planning?

- And what pays for it?

- These daily games are costing a fortune, yet we have no new taxes.

- The future. The future pays for it.

- He's started selling the grain reserves.

- This can't be true.

- He's selling Rome's reserves of grain. The people will be starving in two years.

- I hope they're enjoying the games, because soon enough they'll be dead because of them.

[...]

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