Who is against the law of Greece is not a Greek.

— General Pherides (Boris Karloff)

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3 seconds sound clip from the Isle of the Dead (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:19:10.382 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Wait. Tell me, about the wine... why did you refuse to serve me?

- Why do you kill your own countrymen?

- And when have I done that?

- In my district, they still speak of how you collected taxes in the little villages with field artillery.

- They were in rebellion against the taxes.

- But they were Greeks.

- Who is against the law of Greece is not a Greek.

- Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel, and the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.

- When I went up there, she wasn't quite so impudent. She was frightened.

- Did she tell you why she wouldn't pour the wine for you?

- Some silly grudge against me, for collecting taxes in her district.

- That was before the war.

[...]

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