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We're scandalized by environment, and we call it crime. We denounce crime, and yet we disclaim any responsibility for it. And we lack the will to do anything about it.

11 seconds sound clip from the Knock on Any Door movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:35:34.579 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Come with Nick into the alleys and on the streets, past the drunks and panhandlers and prostitutes into the pool rooms and the bars.

- Listen. Listen to the jackrollers and the thieves. Absorb their poisonous philosophy of life.

- Come with Nick to the penitentiary. Be numbered and counted and hated, and leave there determined to be worthy of that hatred.

- Yes, Nick Romano is guilty. But so are we! And so is that precious thing called society.

- Society is you and you and you and all of us. We, society, are hard and selfish and stupid!

- We're scandalized by environment, and we call it crime. We denounce crime, and yet we disclaim any responsibility for it. And we lack the will to do anything about it.

- Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, 10 will spring up to take his place... 100, 1000, until we wipe out the slums and rebuild them!

- Knock on any door... And you may find Nick Romano.

- The newspapers have been clamoring for pictures and stories about this trial.

- Well, why don't you print this?

- They and you and I, we good people, we, the solid citizens of this community, we photographed and labeled this boy years ago. We made this rendezvous with him years ago. We brutalized and ordered him here years ago.

[...]

Knock on Any Door (1949) Sound Clip

Knock on Any Door posterListen to memorable quotes from the classic 1949 film noir Knock on Any Door, accompanied by short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Andrew Morton), John Derek (Nick Romano)

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