“Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.”
Robert Dudley - Wienie King

“Other men have tried to destroy this book. Maybe this copy will be burned. But they can't burn it out of your memories. You'll have to rewrite it someday. That's why you young people are so important. You're the new nation!”

Charles Laughton - Albert Lory

“- Dr. Ditten: Our children will thank us for the world we are making for them!
- Emmy Ritter: Thank you? Thank you for what? For a world filled with a seed of new hates? For a world in ruins?”
Philip Dorn - Dr. Ditten
Alla Nazimova - Emmy Ritter

“That is the kind of woman that makes whole civilizations topple!”

Kathleen Howard - Miss Bragg

“You'd try to kill the John Doe movement if you can't use it to get what you want? That certainly is a new low. I guess I've seen everything now... you think of deliberately killing an idea that's made millions of people a little bit happier.”

Gary Cooper - John Doe