Now, you've got yourself a castle.

Take a look at a castle, any castle.

Now, break down the elements that make it a castle.

Location. Protection. Garrison.

Flag.

The only difference between this castle and all the rest

is they were built to keep people out.

This castle was built to keep people in.

----

A great general once said,

You tell your men, "you're soldiers. That's our flag."

 

You tell them, "Nobody takes our flag.

Raise your flag so it flies high where everyone can see it."

Now, you've got yourself a castle.

<Irwin, Yates, The Last Castle, 2001>

A rifle driven into the ground, with a helmet on top, and some tags. And that is the tribute that this man has earned.

Some may think to be remembered in this way would be a disgrace to a soldier.

But this is not disgrace.

The greatest monuments to fallen man

are not made in marble.

They're deep in the sea, deep in the jungles, on foreign battlefields,

a rifle driven into the ground, with a helmet on top, and some tags.

And that is the tribute that this man has earned.

<Irwin, The Last Castle, 2001>

Because, make no mistake about it, Mr. Irwin, they are the enemy.

No soldier has ever died needlessly under my command, Mr. Irwin.

See, I, too, share the burden of command.

You may not think that I've ever set foot on a battlefield, but that's because you've never sat behind this desk.

My men and I are vastly outnumbered.

We spend every day behind enemy lines.

Because, make no mistake about it, Mr. Irwin,

they are the enemy.

<Winter, The Last Castle, 2001>

I'm going home, and God willing, I'm going to sit on the porch and play dominos with my grandson

When you're doing combat duty, after awhile, life just becomes snapshots.

Most of them horrible. But not all of them.

I saw an old man sitting on a bombed-out porch, playing a game of dominos with I presume is his grandson.

When I saw that I thought, you know, it's my turn. So, gentlemen. I'm done.

I'm not fighting for anyone or anything anymore. I'm doing my time here, I'm going home,

and God willing, I'm going to sit on the porch and play dominos with my grandson, who I've never met.

<Irwin, The Last Castle, 2001>

Fifty-fifty.

You thought we could be decent men 

in an indecent time. 

But you were wrong.

The world is cruel,

and the only morality in a cruel world

is chance.

Unbiased, unprejudiced...

Fair.

His son's got the same chance she had.

Fifty-fifty.

<Two-face Harvey, The Dark Knight, 2008>

If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. But you will never come back, and I shall never see you again.

If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace.

You will find a wonderful woman,

and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children.

And they'll all love you and remember your name.

But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten...

If you go to Troy, glory will be yours.

They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years.

And the world will remember your name.

But if you go to Troy, you will never come back.

For your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again.

<Troy, 2004>

Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we ...are the cure.

Every mammal on this planet instictively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment,

but you humans do not.

You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed.

The only way can survive is to spread to another area.

There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern.

Do you know what it is?

A virus.

Human beings are a disease,

a cancer of this planet.

You’re a plague and we 

...are the cure.

<The Matrix, 1999>