Gerd Bjarnesen: [Discussing the revolt] Then it's settled?
Knut Osterholm: No, not yet. I don't agree with the pastor, but there are doubts in my mind.
Mortensen - Tailor: You doubt, but my son in Oslo was arrested for cutting wires.
Knut Osterholm: To the Devil with your son in Oslo!
Mortensen - Tailor: You're a traitor!
Knut Osterholm: I'm a farmer. If I lose my farm, there must be a reason for it. The sacrifice of one poor village... what would it accomplish?
Gerd Bjarnesen: What sacrifice? What are you giving up? Your life? Maybe they'll take that from you whhether you fight or not. Your farm? It isn't yours anyway until you fight for it. Your peace? What peace is there when a body of troops can come in in the middle of the night and arrest you as a hostage to be shot for something you never did or never even thought of? Like my father! To live in constant fear, to have blackings at your door, to talk in whispers, to have guards at your church doors!
Jensen - Shoemaker: Do you have any more objections?
Knut Osterholm: All I did was ask a question. A man has a right to ask a question. I'm satisfied with the answer.


--Art Smith (as Knut Osterholm) in Edge of Darkness

Dr. Walters: [to Captain Munsey] That's why you'd never resign from this prison. Where else whould you find so many helpless flies to stick pins into?


--Art Smith (as Dr. Walters) in Brute Force

Dr. Walters: Force does make leaders. But you forget one thing: it also destroys them.


--Art Smith (as Dr. Walters) in Brute Force

Dr. Walters: Important thing, witnesses. Lucky you asked me before exactly what time it was.


--Art Smith (as Dr. Walters) in Brute Force

Narrator: [after the class watches a cartoon of a fox eating a rabbit, Hans speaks and the boys gasp] He said 'the poor rabbit', is he out of his mind?


--Art Smith (as ) in Education for Death

Narrator: A young German couple has come to register the birth of their son.
Mother, Father: Heil Hitler.
Judge: Heil Hitler!
[the parents begin handing the Judge documents]
Narrator: Those documents are birth certificates, all the way to their great grandparents, proving, of course, that they are pure aryans. The mother wants to call her son Hans.
[the Judge gestures toward a list on the wall of non-German names]
Narrator: Here is the Verboten list. Mm-hm. Hans seems to be okay... for the time being. There's their hereditary passport, with spaces for twelve future children. A subtle hint Germany needs soldiers.
[the Judge hands them a copy of "Mein Kampf."]
Narrator: As a reward, they get a copy of Germany's bestseller.


--Art Smith (as ) in Education for Death

Narrator: One day, Hans became sick. His mother is praying that her son get well. She knows that the unfit are taken away by the state... and are never heard of again.


--Art Smith (as ) in Education for Death

Narrator: Remember the fairy tale of the Sleeping Beauty? Hans was taught that the wicked witch... was Democracy. And Sleeping Beauty, who can she be? Aha, here comes the prince!
[the Prince rides forward on his horse to Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." The Witch jumps out of a window]
Narrator: The Prince is victorious! Democracy has fled. He breaks the magic spell with a kiss. The Princess... is Germany.
[the Princess is revealed as a buxom Germania in a Valkyrie helmet]
Narrator: And the brave, handsome knight... you know who he is.
[the Prince removes his helmet, revealing Adolf Hitler]


--Art Smith (as ) in Education for Death

Narrator: The distortion of this tale serves its purpose. Hitler becomes Hans's idol.


--Art Smith (as ) in Education for Death

Narrator: The moral of this Nazi fairy tale seems to be that Hitler got Germany on her feet, climbed into the saddle... and took her for a ride.


--Art Smith (as ) in Education for Death