Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Giacomo Rossi Stuart: Ishmael

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• [as the traitor Melchior is trapped in flames and pleading for mercy] 

  Ishmael : I hear no voice. The dead cannot speak.

• Ishmael : They change us more than we change them. Their evil infects us! Look around you. Your clothes. This food. This house!

  Ildith : We live in a nicer place because the elders wish us to. Lot's the leader of a prosperous people.

  Ishmael : And Shuah who paints her face, who is never home. And my own Maleb, who avoids my eyes.

  Lot : Is this true?

  Ildith : Shuah passes her time as all those of her own age do. And as for Maleb, if you gave her as much thought as you do the mine slaves, there would be no trouble between you two.

  Ishmael : How can you judge innocence, who have none!

• Ishmael : Of all people, you know what its like to be a slave. Tell him.

  Ildith : A mine slave? What do I know of mine slaves? I was never one of those. And I think their freedom is less important than our peace with Sodom.

• Ishmael : Why do we live here?

  Lot : You still will not understand. As we grow in the esteem of the Sodomites, a time will come when we can attain by law all that we wish. By law!

• Ishmael : Property? Are flesh and blood, human beings merely property?

• Ishmael : It can't go on like this!

  Lot : You mean, create an open breach with the Sodomites?