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(as he prepares to murder a Cardinal) "Father, if God has issues, they won't be with what I have done. They'll be with what I am about to do."
- Assassin,
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(sparing the lives of Robert and Vittoria) "I've had several chances to eliminate you tonight. You're still alive because you have no weapons and they didn't ask me to kill you, but if you pursue me, that is another matter. Be careful. These are men of God."
- Assassin,
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(alerting Cardinals to the danger) "Our Church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy, the Illuminati. They have struck us from within and are threatening us all with destruction from their new God, science. They call it retribution."
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna,
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(protecting the Cardinals from a bomb threat) "... give the order to evacuate the Cardinals, but with dignity. Let them walk out of St Peter's Square with their heads held high. I don't want the last image of the Church to be of frightened old men sneaking out the back door."
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna,
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(to Commander Richter as he enters his room) "Have you come to make a martyr of me?"
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna,
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(confronting Camerlengo Patrick McKenna) "You saw the Pope's position as a softening of the Church's law, an old man's weakness, your father's weakness. You murdered the vicar of Christ."
- Cardinal Strauss,
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(entreating Robert Langdon) "The Church is flawed but only because man is flawed. All men, including this one."
- Cardinal Strauss,
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(responding to Robert Langdon who said you will council him (the Pope) wisely) "I am an old man, I will council him briefly."
- Cardinal Strauss ,
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(talking to Vatican police official) "That's a word. That's the Illuminati ambigrammatic symbol that has been considered a myth for four hundred years."
- Robert Langdon,
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(discussing the Illuminatti) "The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th century. Their name means 'enlightened ones'. They were physicist, mathematicians and astronomers. They were concerned with the Church's inaccurate teachings. They were dedicated to scientific truth but the Vatican didn't like that so the Church began to, how did you say it, hunt them down and kill them."
- Robert Langdon,
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(trying to get access to the Vatican archives) "Fellas, you called me."
- Robert Langdon,
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(when asked by Camerlengo Patrick McKenna if he believed in God) "Faith is a gift that I have yet to receive."
- Robert Langdon,
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(after Cardinal Strauss tells him that we are all bound for heaven eventually) "Spoken like one who has enjoyed the blessings of a full life."
- Robert Langdon,
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(when asked if he would be surprised to find that the priest garb he changed into suited him) "It would surprise the hell out of me."
- Robert Langdon,
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(explaining La Purga ) "Oh geez, you guys don't even read your own history, do you? In 1668 the Church kidnapped four Illuminati scientist and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross to purge them of their sins and then they executed them. They threw their bodies into the streets as a warning to others to stop questioning the Church's ruling on scientific matters."
- Robert Langdon,
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(after Cardinal Strauss thanks God for sending him to protect the Church) "I don't believe he sent me, Father. (Strauss replies, "my son, of course he did.")"
- Robert Langdon,
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(explaining the anti-matter cannister) "The anti-matter is suspended in an air tight shell with electromagnets on each end. If it were to fall out of suspension and come into contact with matter, say the bottom of the canister, the two opposing forces would annihilate one another. Violently."
- Vittoria Vetra,
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(to Robert about the stolen anti-matter cannister) "You know the worse thing we thought would happen was that our work would fall into the hands of the energy company. We thought we could change the world."
- Vittoria Vetra,
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