Howard Beale: 62 Movie Quotes with Audio – Page 6

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.

51 Well, the time has come to say is dehumanization such a bad word? Whether it's good or bad, that's what is so.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

52 The whole world is becoming humanoid, creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country, so we're getting there first.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

53 Terrorist of the Week.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

54 Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th, and this is my last broadcast.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

55 It is not a breakdown. I've never felt more orderly in my life. It is a shattering and beautiful sensation.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

56 I don't have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

57 Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the streets. There's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

58 This tube is the Gospel. The ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers!

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

59 This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world! And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)

60 We all know that the Arabs control $16 billion in this country. They own a chunk of 5th Avenue, twenty downtown pieces of Boston, a part of the port of New Orleans, an industrial park in Salt Lake City.

Peter Finch in Network (1976)