Edge of Darkness (1943)

Morris Carnovsky: Sixtus Andresen

Quotes 

• Captain Hauptmann Koenig : What do you want?

  Sixtus Andresen : I... thought it only right, considering that you are... de facto commandant of the village, to acquaint you with a decision that I've made.

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : I'm very busy.

  Sixtus Andresen : I know. I hope you'll forgive me. I know I'm being selfish. But, uhh... Why did you want my house?

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : For a block house! But what was it you wanted to see me about?

  Sixtus Andresen : I cannot let you have my house.

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : You what?

  Sixtus Andresen : I must forbid you to enter my house.

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : [laughs hysterically]  Are you insane? I could have you shot!

  Sixtus Andresen : I know. But if you're interested, I'll tell you what brought me to my conclusion, which is, I can assure you, completely unshakeable. You see, I am well past seventy, and at my age it would be foolish for me to be like Socrates' enemies, and fear death more than I love truth.

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : Go on!

  Sixtus Andresen : ...I have no guns, no airplanes, no force. I disdain.

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : SILENCE!

  Sixtus Andresen : What you don't understand is that the individual man...

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : QUIET, YOU FOOL!

  Sixtus Andresen : - The individual man must stand against you like a rock.

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : [shaking Andresen]  Will you STOP!

  Sixtus Andresen : [calmly]  No. If I were afraid, there might be hope for you, but I am not.

  [Koenig slaps Andresen across the face] 

  Sixtus Andresen : There are certain things you cannot take away from me... What is mine, is mine. Do you think you can stop the working of my brain and my heart?

  [slap] 

  Sixtus Andresen : We are not animals; we are men.

  [slap] 

  Sixtus Andresen : That is the foundation of law - you cannot win.

  [slap] 

  Sixtus Andresen : Where are your courts?

  [slap] 

  Sixtus Andresen : Your judges?

  [slap] 

  Sixtus Andresen : And your juries?

  [slap] 

  Sixtus Andresen : Until you bring them forward, I must forbid you my house.

  Captain Hauptmann Koenig : HE 'FORBIDS'!

  [knocks the old man down the stairwell] 

• Dr. Martin Stensgard : Sixtus Andressen, you're a man for whom we all have respect. You have taught our children... even some of us. We have found you to be wise. Surely in this matter, your wisdom...

  Mortensen - Tailor : He's fallen asleep.

  Sixtus Andresen : No, no, I was not asleep. I was thinking what to say when you asked me, and I knew that you would ask me. What can I say to you? How can I advise you? I've find now that I've lived more than 70 years, and all I know, I know from books, and in all the books I've read, not one do I remember that gives me an answer. Perhaps I read the wrong books. Forgive me if I've failed you. All this may prove a point.

• Sixtus Andresen : [to Koenig]  The individual man must stand against you like a rock.