Men do not easily forget years of slaughter and burning and pillage, and deep and bitter hatreds.
8 seconds sound clip from the Alexander the Great (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:15:09 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- For what? You spoke like a king. I, like a teacher.
- At Cleitus' tale of the raid on Persians? Yes, it did.
- And send them marching under Philip on their holy mission to conquer Persia and destroy it.
- Will Greece follow my father?
- I do not know. Neither does he.
- Men do not easily forget years of slaughter and burning and pillage, and deep and bitter hatreds.
- And the cry of Philip the Barbarian still echoes through the land.
- He may conquer, but he will not rule.
- Do you know how vast the Persian Empire is?
- From the Nile to the Indus, from Samarkand to Babylon.
- Do you know how many different people live there?
- By heart. Carians, Armenians, Jews, Parthians, Egyptians.
- I know their customs and their gods.
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