Oz Quotes

Hill: Tits! That's what we call drugs. 60% of the violence in prison is due to tits! Either people not paying their dues or people trying to control the traffic. The traffic. (scoffs) Lately, here in Oz, the traffic has been bumper to bumper!

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Dr. Prestopnik: You have to take something, or you'll die!
Said: Oh believe me, doctor, I have no intention of dying!

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O'Reily: If you gotta go, you gotta go high.

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O'Reily: We gotta make him think that we're enemies. Keep him off guard until we kill him.
Adebisi: We kill him, the mob kills us.
O'Reily: They won't know. Not if we put this in his food.
Adebisi: Glass?
O'Reily: We make it fine, he won't be able to taste it. Over time, the glass will cut his insides up.
Adebisi: He'll die slowly.
O'Reily: But painfully.
Adebisi: You're one sick mother fucker, O'Reily.
O'Reily: Coming from you, that's a compliment.

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Mershah: (seeing Said is having a heart attack) It is the hand of God! It is the will of Allah!
Said: Call a doctor!
Mershah: You must go ahead and die.

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Beecher: I hated Myself so I drank too much.And I hated Myself for drinking too much so to punish Myself I drank more.Sister...I don't wanna hate Me any more

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Kenny: I ain't afraid of you.
McManus: (begins choking Kenny, yelling) You afraid of this?! Huh?! ARE YOU AFRAID OF DYING?!

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Hill: You gotta love your body because it's all you got to hold on to. It's all you got! I'll make a deal with you: I'll love your body if you love mine!

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Said: Husseini Mershah! You saw that I was dying and yet you walked away? You wanted me to die!
Mershah: No, minister--
Said: NO! This man is not our brother! He is our enemy! As of this moment, this man is cast out! No Muslim will speak to him, look him in the eye, or acknowledge him! You wanted the death of another? Well, right now you're dead to us all!

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Groves: (trying to repeat an Islamic greeting)A-salami-I-like-'em.

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Mrs Smith: (To Groves after He killed her son) You broke God's law: Love thy neighbour.I want to hate You but I can't.I feel pity,tears but no hate.I didn't realise that until now.You're My neighbour and I Love You.And I forgive You with all My heart

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Augustus Hill: Remember when your High School History teacher said "The course of human events changes because of the deeds of great men"?. Well the bitch was lying. Fuck Caesar, fuck Lincoln, fuck Mahatma Gandhi. The world keeps turning because of me and you: the anonymous. Revolutions start because people don't have enough bread. Wars start over a game of Checkers.

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Schillinger: I had a visit from my sons. They're almost out of their teens now, almost men. Yesterday my boys sat there across from me ranting and raging. They were both fucked up on drugs. They know I hate drugs, that I'm in here because I hate drugs and because I love them. I got about three months until I'm up for parole. All I want to do is get out of here, be there for them. Try to help my kids. That's all.
McManus: If I put you back into Em City, you'll kill Beecher.
Schillinger: If I wanted him dead, he'd already be dead.
McManus: You say you've changed. Why should I believe you?
Schillinger: (smiles) Trust me, McManus. You lose an eye, you get kicked in the balls, you get a face full of shit, you become a different man.

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Schillinger: I don't want any trouble.
Beecher: No, of course not! You get into a fight, you fuck up your parole! And I hear that for the next few months, you're gonna be a good little boy so you can get out of Oz and save your two sons. You know, I think that's great. But what I'm wondering is: what if Vern never gets out? What if, as he comes up for parole, he gets into a brawl? A knock-down drag-out with his old roomie! What if, every time he comes up for parole, Vern gets into some ugly incident and has to serve his entire sentence? And his two sons, they become monsters. (laughs) That's just what I'm wondering about.

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Said: Now, I am not saying that the men in Oz are innocent. I am saying they are not here because of the crimes that they committed, but because of the color of their skin, the lack of education, the fact that they are poor. You see, this riot is not about getting smoking back, conjugal rights, it's not even about life in prison. It's about society taking responsibility. It's about the whole horrid judicial system. And we don't need more prisons, bigger prisons, better prisons. We need better justice. Now what can you do about that?

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Hill: Yeah, who cares who lives or dies in prison? We read their names in the morning paper and they mean nothing to us! They're faceless! Truth is we don't want to put a face on them! We don't want to know who they really are because then it might hit too close to home. And home is what it's all about, right? Making a home no matter where you are, no matter who you are. At the end of the day, all of us need somewhere to rest. Somewhere to lay our bones. Even if it's in a land called Oz. Yeah, like Dorothy says when she wakes up in her own bed back at Aunt Em's: "There's no place like home. There's no fucking place like home!"

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Case: Ryan O'Reily. Vehicular manslaughter, reckless endangerment, possession of controlled substances, possession of a deadly weapon, violation of parole. That's an amazing list of crimes.
O'Reily: Well, you know, I applied myself.

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McManus: Who told you?
Case: That Ross was the one that shot you?
McManus: Yeah.
Case: You just did.

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Case: You can't have it both ways, governor! If the prisoners are guilty, so are you.

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Sister Pete: I couldn't wait for Ross to leave my office.
Case: Why? He make you nervous?
Sister Pete: That, and he had a terrible hygiene problem.

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Dr. Gloria Nathan: You may have breast cancer.
O'Reily: (laughs) That's funny.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: I'm not joking.
O'Reily: Breast cancer? Girls get breast cancer.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: Men do too. It's rare, especially at your age, but it does happen.
O'Reily: I'm not a fag, you know. I've been in this shithole for over a year, and I ain't ever taken it up the ass!
Dr. Gloria Nathan: No one is saying that you have!
O'Reily: Bullshit! You're telling me I've got a chick's disease!
Dr. Gloria Nathan: Men have breasts, the same as women.
O'Reily: What the fuck you talking about? I ain't got breasts, I got a chest! (pulls open his shirt) See it? Huh, see it?!

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Beecher: Who are you?
Busmalis: Agamemnon Busmalis, a.k.a. 'The Mole'.
Rebadow: The Mole?
Busmalis: I dig. I can dig anywhere. I'm gonna dig my way out of Oz.

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Beecher: Reading Mein Kampf? Let Me tell You how it ends: The Aryans get Their ass kicked

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Warden Glynn: The librarian will no longer be available between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m.
Alvarez: That's because she's gonna be with me.

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Beecher: Hill, you think I'm insane, right?
Hill: Shit, yeah.

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Beecher: Thank God I'm crazy, 'cause I don't give a shit!

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Shirley: (looking around her new cell) How comfy.

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O'Reily: I can't figure out why the fuck you care, but I'm glad you do. No one's ever given a shit about me my whole life, so I'm not very good at saying thanks.

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O'Reily: Would you fucking relax?
Shannen: Don't get pissy with me! I'm the one who's thinking of you!

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Schillinger: We can rule Oz!

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