Howard Beale: 62 Movie Quotes with Audio – Page 3

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

Hear the man who made the TV world tremble – Howard Beale’s legendary quotes from the 1976 film Network, freely downloadable as WAV or MP3.

21 The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered insensate things.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

22 I'm gonna blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle of the seven o'clock news. You'll get a hell of a rating, I'll guarantee you that. 50 share, easy. -You think so? -Sure.

Howard Beale (Peter Finch), Max Schumacher (William Holden) in Network (1976)

23 _ is all the reasons we give for living. And if we can't think up any reasons of our own, we always have the God _. -Holy Mary, Mother of Christ.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

24 We don't know why we're going through all this pointless pain, humiliation and decay, so there better be someone somewhere who does know. That's the God _.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

25 Well, if there's anybody out there that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me, that man is full of _.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

26 The dispassionate pundit, reporting with seemly detachment the daily parade of lunacies that constitute the news. And just once I wanted to say what I really felt.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

27 Do you want to be an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our times? -Yeah, I think I'd like to be an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our times. -Then grab it. Grab it!

Max Schumacher (William Holden), Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in Network (1976)

28 And I said, What's this, the Burning Bush? For God's sake, I'm not Moses. And the voice said to me, And I'm not God. What has that got to do with it?

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

29 And the voice said to me: We're not talking about eternal truth or absolute truth or ultimate truth. We're talking about impermanent, transient, human truth.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

30 I don't expect you people to be capable of truth, but goddammit, at least you're capable of self-preservation.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)