| Quote from the Movie «NETWORK» (1976) |
| Howard Beale: |
| I don’t have to tell you things are bad. |
| Everybody knows things are bad. |
| It’s a depression. |
| Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. |
| The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun |
| under the counter. |
| Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to |
| know what to do, and there’s no end to it. |
| We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, |
| and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today |
| we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way |
| it’s supposed to be. |
| We know things are bad — worse than bad. |
| They’re crazy. |
| It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. |
| We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, |
| and all we say is, ' |
| Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. |
| Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say |
| anything. |
| Just leave us alone.' Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. |
| I want you to get mad! |
| I don’t want you to protest. |
| I don’t want you to riot — I don’t want you to write to your congressman |
| because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. |
| I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians |
| and the crime in the street. |
| All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. |
| You’ve got to say, ' |
| I’m a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! |
| My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. |
| I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. |
| I want you to get up right now and go to the window. |
| Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ' |
| M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I' |
| M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, |
| go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell — ' |
| I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to |
| change. |
| But first, you’ve gotta get mad… |
| You’ve got to say, ' |
| I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!' Then we’ll figure |
| out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. |
| But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, |
| and yell, and say it: " |
| M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I' |
| M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" |