There are certain things for which civilisation has no answer.

— Mehemet Bey (George Pastell)

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4 seconds sound clip from the The Mummy (1959) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:14:51.920 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Surely, there can't be people who still have such beliefs?

- Now you talk about something of which you know nothing. You've scratched only the surface and you know nothing.

- You assume the right to disturb the everlasting peace of the gods.

- You pry and meddle with unclean hands and eyes. Profanity, blasphemy, religious desecration, all these you are guilty of.

- But the powers with which you have meddled do not rest easy. I think you will not go unpunished.

- Punished? By whom?

- There are certain things for which civilisation has no answer.

- But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to face the consequences, whatever they are.

- Consequences? That sounds like a threat.

- You must excuse me, Mr Banning.

- We like to think that our European dress, our liberal education have buried the past. But, occasionally, one is forced to realise that all this is only veneer.

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