You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time, who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgment.
— Colonel Walter Kurtz (Marlon Brando)
28 seconds sound clip from the Apocalypse Now movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 03:02:19 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- The will to do that, perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.
- And then I realized they were stronger than me because they could stand it.
- These were not monsters. These were men, trained cadres.
- If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.
- Without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
- I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be.
[...]