"Four decades ago DNA samples were taken from the four members of the council. One was chosen, mine. They altered it to enhanced the best qualities and screened off the worse weaknesses and frailties. We created you."

"Joseph Dredd, you are aware that the law allows only one punishment for your crime. Death. However, it has long been our custom to carry out the last order of a retiring senior judge. And so, I step down. As I leave, to take my long walk into the cursed earth, I ask that this court honor my last order: be lenient with Judge Dredd, in gratitude for his years of service."

"[After slaughtering the entire Council of Judges] Now who says politics is boring?"

"You want fear? I'm fear. You want chaos? I'm the chaos. You want a beginning? Here - I am the new beginning!"

"[Picking up a Lawgiver, which a merchant has warned him can't be used by anyone but a judge] Gee, how do you like that? I must be a judge."

"[When the Aspen Penal Colony warden asks him what the meaning of life is] It ends."

"Guilt, and innocence, is a matter of timing."

"Court's adjourned."

"The law can't apologize!"

"You betrayed the law!"

"I never broke the law! I AM THE LAW!"

"Emotions. There oughta be a law against them."

"I am... the law! Drop... your weapons! These blocks... are under... arrest! This is your final... warning!"

"The truth is just a lie that hasn't been found out."

"Burt Lancaster - Maxwell Danforth"

"Christopher Starr - Steve Tanner"

"Sandy McPeak - Stennings"

"Cassie Yates - Betty Cardone"

"Helen Shaver - Virginia Tremayne"

"Meg Foster - Ali Tanner"