- Vern Schillinger: The niggers are up to something.
- Chris Keller: The niggers are always up to something. So are you.
- [continuous chanting in Unit B following Hill's unjust placement in Ad Seg]
- Black Inmates: Set Hill free! Set Hill free! Set Hill free!
- White Inmates: Shut the fuck up! Shut the fuck up! Shut the fuck up!
- [Schillinger tries to rally the white inmates together in light of recent racial unrest]
- Vern Schillinger: I know we've had a lot of shit between us. But we've got to put that aside for now and be united by the one thing that binds us together: The color of our skin.
- Nikolai Stanislofsky: [stands up] I am Russian! And I am a Jew! But I am also white. So Schillinger, am I a member of your club?
- [pause]
- Vern Schillinger: Yes.
- [Beecher walks off in disgust]
- Prisoner #97P468 Charles Pancamo: I'm concerned about the agitation that's out there since Khan got flattened.
- Raoul 'El Cid' Hernandez: I'm know what you mean, man. I hear a lot of shit coming out of your mouth.
- Simon Adebisi: It's not shit.
- Raoul 'El Cid' Hernandez: Look, I ain't saying you cocoa locos haven't been fucked over in life. I have been too. But all these noises you're making will fuck things up around here.
- Prisoner #97P468 Charles Pancamo: You can't move tits if you're in lockdown 24/7.
- Simon Adebisi: There are some things more important than tits. More important than money.
- [Adebisi leaves]
- Raoul 'El Cid' Hernandez: More important than money? He's in his loco mode again, man.
- Officer Sean Murphy: [sees Alvarez, Hernandez, Ricardo and Guerra in the same pod] Why is it whenever I see the four of you together in one pod I get nervous? Whoever don't live here, out. Now.
- Officer Sean Murphy: [Ricardo and Guerra leave] Hey, Hernandez. For Christ's sake it's Christmas. Take a break from being a tough guy, ok?
- Raoul 'El Cid' Hernandez: [after Murphy leaves] He's right. Enjoy the day.
- Raoul 'El Cid' Hernandez: [turns to leave, but then goes back to Alvarez] It'll be your last.
- Bob Rebadow: I'm getting a premonition like I used to when God would talk to me.
- Agamemnon Busmalis: God would talk to you?
- Bob Rebadow: He would tell me what was going to happen.
- Agamemnon Busmalis: And is he talking to you now?
- [Rebadow nods]
- Agamemnon Busmalis: So what's he saying?
- Bob Rebadow: He says, "Be afraid."
- Cyril O'Reily: I hurt that man.
- Ryan O'Reily: Nah, he'll be fine.
- Cyril O'Reily: No. I hurt him bad. Why, Ryan? Why'd you make me hurt him?
- Ryan O'Reily: Just get ready to go to bed, please, Cyril. Come on.
- Cyril O'Reily: Tell me. Why'd I have to hurt him?
- Ryan O'Reily: Would you just shut up, please, and get ready for bed? I'm tired.
- Cyril O'Reily: No, you answer me now. Why'd you make me think of Dad? And Mom? Why?
- Ryan O'Reily: To survive. Don't you fucking get it yet? To survive in this fucking hellhole! You want the goddamn truth? Khan is brain-damaged.
- Cyril O'Reily: No.
- Cyril O'Reily: Yeah. I saw it when he went down. His eyes went all vacant and shit.
- Cyril O'Reily: You mean I made him just like me?
- Ryan O'Reily: No.
- [leans in closer, whispers]
- Ryan O'Reily: Worse.
- Augustus Hill: There's lots of folks who think the world's gonna end, come the dawn of this new millennium. They think we'll see the Second Coming of Christ, the Apocalypse, Armageddon, Doomsday. They tie it all to God's great plan. But ask yourself, "Does God know it's January 1st? Does he have his watch set for midnight? And if he does, which time zone is he in?" Man invented hours, days and minutes. Man invented calendars and clocks. God's got his own timetable and it's stupid of us to think that we can set it for him. All we can do is watch the clock run out, and hope for the best.
- Simon Adebisi: I don't give a SHIT about what your Koran says.
- Kareem Said: What exactly do you give a shit about, Adebisi?