It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.