Leonidas: The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, that even a god-king can bleed.
Spartan King Leonidas: This is where we fight! This is where they die!
Captain: Earn these shields, boys!
[Spartans cheer]
Spartan King Leonidas: Remember this day, men, for it will [...]

Lucilla: Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.
Lucilla: My brother hates all the world and you most of all.
Maximus: Because your father chose me.
Lucilla: No. Because my father loved you. And because I loved you.
Proximo:I know that you are a man of your word, General. I know that you [...]

Paul: [of the Tutsi] You cannot seriously think that you can kill them all.
George: And why not? We are halfway there already.
Colonel Oliver: We’re here as peace keepers, not peace makers
Tatiana Rusesabagina: [while watching a neighbor get beaten] Do something.
Paul Rusesabagina: Do what?
Tatiana Rusesabagina: Call someone.
Paul Rusesabagina: [after shutting the gate] There is nothing we [...]

Saigo: He studied the Americans. So he knows how to beat them.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Everything happens in threes.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You are quite a soldier
Saigo: No, just a simple baker
Baron Nishi: This is a picture of me and my horse champion.
Sam: [Sam smiles and chuckles] No kidding. Oklahoma, it’s where I’m from.
Baron Nishi: Takeichi.
Sam: Sam.
[Both [...]

Itzhak Stern: The standard SS rate for skilled Jewish workers is seven marks a day, five for unskilled and women. This is what you pay to the Reich Economic Office. The Jews themselves receive nothing. Poles you pay wages. Generally, they get a little more. Are you listening?
Oskar Schindler: What was that about the SS? [...]

Rose:I feel as if I’m in a room screaming and no one even looks up.
Old Rose: It was the ship of dreams to everyone else. To me it was a slave ship, taking me back to America in chains. Outwardly, I was everything a well brought up girl should be. Inside, I was screaming.
Cal Hockley: [...]

Achilles: Before my time is over, I will look down upon your corpse and smile.
Achilles: [to his men] Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what’s waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! [...]