Yes, I understand. Truly. But don't you see? It's a matter of principle. If we give in now, there'll be no end to it. No.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Bridge on the River Kwai movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:41:19.557 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- It's a question of face, pure and simple. And he can't give in.
- Sir, you can't stand much more of this.
- And wouldn't the officers be better off working than suffocating in that hole?
- And if he makes the sick men work. Well, they're going to die. That's all there is to it.
- Sir, we're lost in the jungle, a thousand miles from anywhere.
- We're under the heel of a man who will stop at nothing to get his way.
- Principle! No one will ever know or care what happens to us.
- I'm adamant. I will not have an officer from my battalion working as a coolie.
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