The best Quotes from Snowpiercer

Order is the barrier that holds back the flood of death.

Edgar: "What does steak taste like again? I had it once, but I can't remember."
Curtis: "If you can't remember then it's better to forget."

You've seen what people do without leadership. They devour one another.

I believe it is easier for people to survive on this train if they have some level of insanity.

You know what I hate about myself? I know what people taste like. I know babies taste the best.

My friend, you suffer from the misplaced optimism of the doomed.

You need to maintain a proper balance of anxiety and fear and chaos and horror in order to keep life going. And if we don't have that, we need to invent it.

The front and the tail are supposed to work together.

This is the world. The train saved humanity. The engine lasts forever. The population must always be kept in balance.

Curtis: "How old are you?"
Yona: "Seventeen."
Curtis: "Seventeen. You're a train baby, then."
Yona: "How about you?"
Curtis: "Seventeen years on Earth. Seventeen years in the tail section."

You ever been to the tail section? Do you have any idea what went on back there? When we boarded? It was chaos. Yeah, we didn't freeze to death, but we didn't have time to be thankful. Wilford's soldiers came and they took everything. A thousand people in an iron box. No food, no water... after a month, we ate the weak... you know what I hate about myself? I know what people taste like. I know that babies taste best... there was a woman. She was hiding with her baby. And some men with knives came. They killed her and they took her baby. And then an old man-no relation, just an old man-stepped forward and he said, "Give me the knife." And everyone thought he'd kill the baby himself. But he took the knife and he cut off his arm. And he said, "Eat this, if you're so hungry. Eat this, just leave the baby." I had never seen anything like that. And the men put down their knives... you've probably guessed who that old man was. That baby was Edgar. And I was the man with the knife. I killed Edgar's mother... and then one by one, other people in the tail section started cutting off arms and legs and offering them. It was like a miracle. And I wanted to. I tried, it's... a month later, Wilford's soldiers brought those protein blocks. We've been eatin' that shit ever since. 18 years I've hated Wilford. 18 years I've waited for this moment. And now I'm here... open the gate. Please.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

I will escape for every innocent woman whose life was stolen.

Elodie, you join a long line of women who have helped to build this kingdom. It is this sacrifice we commemorate every generation. A tradition going back centuries. A legacy of honor and duty you now inherit.

I need you to listen to me now. I don't trust them. They may be royalty, but that doesn't make them good people.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better.

Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

This is for all you new people. I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself! Welcome to the Roughnecks!

Funny how they always want to be friends after they rip your guts out.

They sucked his brains out.

Your little cinematic universe is about to change forever. I'm the Messiah. I am Marvel Jesus!

Paradox: "Mr. Wilson. You have appeared to have soiled yourself while unconscious."
Wade Wilson: "I wasn't unconscious. Who are you?"

Is that supposed to be scary? Pegging isn't new for me, friendo, but it is for Disney.

It's funny, isn't it, though. I mean, we evolved out of the water, and some part of our reptilian brain knows we're not supposed to be there anymore. But... I guess that's why we try to tame it so hard. It's like trying to conquer death.

I used to be scared of pools.

The pool is fine. The pool is the greatest thing that has happened to me.

Everything you fear is under the surface.

Student: "Nice wig, Janis. What's it made of?"
Janis: "Your mom's chest hair!"

Gretchen, I'm sorry I laughed at you that time you got diarrhea at Barnes & Nobles. And I'm sorry for telling everyone about it. And I'm sorry for repeating it now.

At your age, you're going to have a lot of urges. You're going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But if you do touch each other, you will get chlamydia... and die.

Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George's life definitely didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.

I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.

Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total sl*t and no other girls can say anything about it.

I love her. She's like a Martian!

Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, okay, promise? Okay... now everybody take some rubbers.

Get in loser, we're going shopping.

And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that Man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals.

Cady: "Yeah, I like math."
Damian: "Eww. Why?"
Cady: "Because it's the same in every country."

Gretchen: "That is so fetch!"
Regina: "Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!"

Karen: "If you're from Africa, why are you white?"
Gretchen: "Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white."

Rafe: "You are so beautiful it hurts."
Evelyn: "It's your nose that hurts."
Rafe: "I think it's my heart."

That's what I want to come home to, that's what I want to have to think about and dream about. I wanna know that the best part of my life is still ahead of me.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

When the action is over and we look back, we understand both more and less. This much is certain. Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat. After it, there was hope of victory. Japan realized, for the first time, they could lose and began to pull back. America realized, that she would win and surged forward. It was a war, that changed America and the world. Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross. But he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes. World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1.177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls, and through the trial, we overcame.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.

Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.

Kept in a small bowl, they will remain small. With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple its size.