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Helen Westcott: I was warned you are an asshole!
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Gelb: [explaining the W Delta Z equation] The selfish gene...
Helen Westcott: Go on.
Gelb: You think a bird will sacrifice itself for the flock, or a bee will sting a predator and die for the hive? How noble. How heroic.
Helen Westcott: And it isn't true?
Gelb: No, it isn't true. Suppose you put a snake into the cage and one of the monkeys is a hero - yeah, lures it away, lets it eat him. But it's not heroism. It's not selflessness. Forget the bees. Forget the monkey. The monkey's nothing. Just think what the monkey's made of.
Helen Westcott: What's that?
Gelb: Genes. The monkey is just the gene's way of making copies of itself. All these monkeys, they're all related. They all share their genes. So the monkey dies. What do the genes care? That's what Price proved. There's no altruism in nature. It's just genes looking after themselves. Ha.
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Gelb: Just imagine a hero without a genetic motive. Not a relative, not a potential mate. Now, that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
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Jean Lerner: Just flick the switch. It's what we all do. There is no love.
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[last lines]
Eddie Argo: [as Jean goes to slit his throat] I'm... so... scared
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[last lines]
Daniel Leone: [to on looking cops staring at him hugging Eddie] What The FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
[covers a naked Eddie with a blanket]
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Jean Lerner: [as Daniel screams abuse at her for torturing Eddie] SAY IT SAY IT... SAY I'M A FUCKING BITCH WHO ENJOYS DOING THIS
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Jack Corelli: [to a bereaved mother who was forced to sacrifice her child to save her own life] It should've been you who died
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Pierre Jackson: [on letting his grandmother die to save his own life] It was a mercy killing
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Helen Westcott: He's not gonna stop till he finishes the equation
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Helen Westcott: He's not going to stop till he answers the equation
Helen Westcott: He's not going stop till he completes the equation
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Daniel Leone: [to Jackson] It's not Harbi... it's Lerner... IT'S PAYBACK MAN
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Elly Carpenter: You wanna blowjob? Suck dick good for ten bucks.
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[last lines]
Eddie Argo: Ah shit... I'm fucking scared
The Killing Gene Quotes
Extended Reading
