Hawaii Five-O Quotes

McGarrett: Chin, you're gonna make a speech tomorrow.
Chin: Me? What do I talk about?
McGarrett: Law and order.
Chin: For or against?

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McGarrett: I abhor violence in any form. I think that violence breeds violence on any level. Every war, every riot started with one individual act of violence. I’m a peace officer. Euphemism? Maybe. But I want peace more than anything else in the world.

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McGarrett: Lesson one. Nobody is loved by everybody.

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McGarrett: There are dangerous animals in the world and some of them walk on two feet. They don't want peace and they're not capable of love. Society [...] need[s] protection from these warped minds, and that's my job. Now, you have every right to sing about peace, and march about it, write about it... but what I just told you is the way it is, unfortunately. That's why we're armed.

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Margi: Have you ever thought that sometimes this world can be harder on a woman than a man?
McGarrett: [undercover as Harry Brown] Yeah. Yeah, sometimes.
Margi: Underneath what we grow up to be, I suppose there's just a little girl in all of us looking out, wondering why people turn into such frightening misshapen monsters. And then one day, you look and you're one of those people. You're one of those frightening misshapen monsters. Crowding, destroying, doing anything to stay alive.

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Chin: You believe in Pele, huh?
Kono: You gotta be kidding. I ain't believed in Pele since I was four years old. [pause] You know, I suddenly feel like I'm four years old.

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McGarrett: How can a man cling to the ancient beliefs in this day and age? Will you tell me?
Kono: People got to believe in something, boss. Even if it's a high priest like the kahuna.
McGarrett: I'll buy that, Kono.

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Warren: Come on home with me.
Wanda: No.
Warren: Look, I promise that I won't interfere with your lifestyle... within reason, that is.
Wanda: It's dear father, fair and life is problem.
Warren: The boy is going to destroy you.

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Wanda: So help me Don, if you start chanting, I'll kick you.
Don: Peace. [chanting the Hare Krishna mantra]
Wanda: [yelling] I've ask you not to do that! You wanna know why... because I've had it! The whole mystic bit, the chanting, the hanging incense from the ceiling, the stopping from the heartbeat it's sick, sick, sick! I can't take it anymore!

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Warren: She had so much to give... unless he had twisted her... so destroyed her.
McGarrett: He? Who is he?
Warren: Don Miles. The boy that Wanda was involve with. He couldn't get a job, couldn't wear shoes, couldn't cut his hair. He could teach himself to hang and was teaching her. He was teaching her to hang herself... to kill herself.

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Thomas: (shouting) John?! John!! I brought Mr. McGarret with me!! Mamas says "You're the trash" Mr. McGarret!!
McGarrett: (shouting) John?!! John?!! I've come as far as I'm coming!! Hide your tail out of there or squirrel this piece will come and get you! John, I'm here to help you!
Thomas: There he is!
[John came from far away]
McGarrett: John.

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