"RTLM broadcast: Listen to me good people of Rwanda. Terrible news. Horrible news. Our great president is murdered by the Tutsi cockroaches. They tricked him into signing their phony peace agreement then they shot his plane from the sky. It is time to clear the great brush, good Hutus of Rwanda. We must cut the tall trees. Cut all tall trees down! Let us get to work good Hutus! Find the traitors! Let none escape!"

"[first lines, voiceover] When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say, "Read our history." The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are cockroaches. They are murderers. Rwanda is our Hutu land. We are the majority. They are a minority of traitors and invaders. We will squash this infestation. We will wipe out the RPF rebels. This is RTLM, Hutu power radio. Stay alert. Watch your neighbours."

"There will be no rescue, no intervention force. We can only save ourselves. Many of you know influential people abroad, you must call these people. You must tell them what will happen to us... say goodbye. But when you say goodbye, say it as though you are reaching through the phone and holding their hand. Let them know that if they let go of that hand, you will die. We must shame them into sending help."

"Joaquin Phoenix — Jack Daglish"

"Cara Seymour — Pat Archer"

"Desmond Dube — Dube"

"Hakeem Kae-Kazim — George Rutaganda"

"Nick Nolte — Colonel Oliver"

"Don Cheadle — Paul Rusesabagina"

"Marsha Mason as Aggie"

"This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy, and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it."

"You can run me, you can starve me, you can beat me and you can kill me. Just don't bore me."

"Bo Svenson as Roy Jennings"

"Mark Mattingly as Franco "One Ball" Peterson"

"Eileen Heckart as Mary Jackson"

"Moses Gunn as Staff Sergeant Luke Webster"

"Everett McGill as Major Malcolm A. Powers"

"Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway"

"[To Guy] If the war's to be now or later, I would have it now."

"[After raiding a peaceful caravan] I am what I am. Someone has to be."

"You never fight back. You always turn the other cheek. I think that you conceive yourself without sin. That is a sin!"

"But this isn't adultery. It's washing. But if it were adultery... which it isn't... the Commandments are not for people like us. They are for the others."

"[To Tiberias] How long before he wears a mask? Will you have one made for him? How did my boy deserve it?"

"Jerusalem is dead Tiberias. No kingdom is worth my son alive in hell. I shall go to hell instead."

"There'll be a day when you will wish you had done a little evil to do a greater good."

"[To Sibylla] My beautiful sister. So beautiful. I'm sorry if I've caused you any pain. Remember me as I was."

"On your knees... lower. I am... Jerusalem. And you, Reynald, will give me the kiss of peace. [Takes off glove]"

"Come. Sit. Do you play? The whole world is in chess. Any move can be the death of you. Do anything except remain where you started and you can't be sure of your end."

"The Saracens say that this disease is God's vengeance against the vanity of our kingdom. As wretched as I am, these Arabs believe that the chastisement that awaits me in hell is far more severe and lasting. If that's true, I call it unfair."

"Come forward. I am glad to meet Godfrey's son. He was one of my greatest teachers. He was there when, playing with the other boys, my arm was cut. And it was he, not my father's physicians, who noticed that I felt no pain. He wept when he gave my father the news, that I am a leper."

"When I was sixteen I won a great victory. I felt in that moment that I should live to be one hundred, now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end really, or what hand will guide us there. A King may move a man, a father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCC8tjrXYE8&ab_channel=GiangNguyen Balian and King Baldwin IV"

"I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. I've seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves. And goodness - what God desires - is here [points to Balian's head] and here [points to Balian's heart] and by what you decide to do every day you will be a good man...or not."