Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes Quotes

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.

Cornelius: They will dissect you! And they will kill you! In that order!
Ursus: The only good human... is a dead human!
Cornelius: If you are caught by the gorillas, you must remember one thing.
John Brent: What's that?
Cornelius: Never to speak!
John Brent: What the hell would I have to say to a gorilla?
Nova: Taylor!
Dr. Zaius: Someone, or something, has outwitted the intelligence of the gorillas.
Dr. Zira: That shouldn't be difficult.
John Brent: When may we hope to be released?
Caspay: You may hope whenever you wish.
[last lines]
Ending Voiceover: In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.
Mendez: May the Blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more.
Congregation: [singing] Amen!
Negro: Mr. Taylor, Mr. Brent, we are a peaceful people. We don't kill our enemies. We get our enemies to kill each other.
Caspay, Negro: I reveal my Inmost Self unto my God.
Albina, Fat man: Unto my God.
Congregation: [singing] Unto my God!
Mendez: Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.
Mendez: [praying] The heavens declare the glory of the Bomb, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.
John Brent: [indicating Nova] She can't help you. She can't even talk! Don't harm her.
Albina: *We* never harm anyone, Mr. Brent. *You're* going to harm her.
Ursus: The only thing that counts in the end is power! Naked merciless force!
Dr. Zaius: You ask me to help you? Man is evil! Capable of nothing but destruction!
John Brent: That thing out there, an atomic bomb... is your god?
Taylor: [as Nova slowly dies, gunned down by a gorilla] Well, that tears it. Maybe we should just let the world blow up. The gorillas, every damned... what it comes to.
[with a dry little man-sob of despair]
John Brent: [Intense, full of fury] Taylor, come on. Come on!
Taylor: Yeah.
John Brent: [Dr. Zira pours a powder on Brent's wound] Ow! What is that damn stuff?
Dr. Zira: You wouldn't know if I told you. Just relax. Among other things, I'm a trained vet.
Ursus: What is more dangerous than famine, Doctor?
Dr. Zaius: The unknown.
John Brent: [to a sleeping Nova] Are you... what we were... before we learned to talk and made a mess of everything?
Ursus: He bleeds! The Lawgiver bleeds!
Dr. Zira: Gorillas are cruel because they're stupid! All bone and no brain!

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