Quotes from the Movie Death Wish (1974)

We want money, mother, now get it!

Freak #1

Goddamn rich cunt! I KILL RICH CUNTS!

Freak

Yeah? Well, what if the cops can't handle this?

Paul Kersey

By "decent people," you mean people who can afford to live somewhere else.

Paul Kersey

My heart bleeds a little for the underprivileged, yes.

Paul Kersey

You've got a prime figure. You really have, you know.

Paul Kersey

Nothing to do but cut and run, huh? What else? What about the old American social custom of self-defense? If the police don't defend us, maybe we ought to do it ourselves.

Paul Kersey

I mean, if we're not pioneers, what have we become? What do you call people who, when they're faced with a condition or fear, do nothing about it, they just run and hide?

Paul Kersey

There's only one way to find out. Take a walk on Columbus Avenue tonight.

Paul Kersey

You know, decent people are going to have to work here and live somewhere else.

Sam Kreutzer

Oh Christ, you are such a bleeding-heart liberal, Paul.

Sam Kreutzer

The underprivileged are beating our goddamned brains out. You know what I say? Stick them in concentration camps, that's what I say.

Sam Kreutzer

I'll bet muggings are down, and they're afraid to tell us.

Sam Kreutzer

You're probably one of them knee-jerk liberals that thinks us gun boys would shoot our guns because it's an extension of our penises.

Ames Jainchill

Well, maybe it is. But this is gun country.

Ames Jainchill