1:33:01
all necessities provided...
1:33:04
all anxieties tranquilized...
1:33:09
all boredom amused.
1:33:19
And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale...
1:33:23
to preach this evangel.
1:33:26
Why me?
1:33:29
Because you're on television, dummy!
1:33:33
Sixty million people watch you...
1:33:35
every night of the week,
Monday through Friday.
1:33:38
I have seen the face of God.
1:33:43
You just might be right, Mr. Beale.
1:33:47
That evening Howard Beale
went on the air...
1:33:49
to preach the corporate cosmology
of Arthur Jensen.
1:33:52
Last night I got up here and asked you
to fight for your heritage...
1:33:57
and you did,
and it was beautiful.
1:33:59
Six million telegrams were received
at the White House.
1:34:02
The Arab takeover of CCA
has been stopped.
1:34:06
The people spoke, the people won.
1:34:08
It was a radiant eruption
of democracy.
1:34:11
But I think that was it, fellas.
1:34:15
That sort of thing is not likely
to happen again...
1:34:18
because at the bottom
of all our terrified souls...
1:34:21
we know that democracy
is a dying giant...
1:34:24
a sick, sick, dying,
decaying political concept...
1:34:27
writhing in its final pain.
1:34:29
I don't mean that the United States
is finished as a world power.
1:34:32
The U. S is the richest,
most advanced country in the world...
1:34:36
light-years ahead
of any other country...
1:34:38
and the Communists won't take over the
world because they're deader than we.
1:34:41
What is finished...
1:34:45
is the idea that this great country...
1:34:47
is dedicated to the freedom and
flourishing of every individual in it.
1:34:53
It's the individual that's finished.
1:34:57
It's the single, solitary human being
that's finished.