Quotes from the Movie Fail-Safe

Yes, to keep from being murdered!

Professor Groeteschele

Mr. Knapp overlooks one factor, the machines are supervised by humans. Even if the machine fails a human can always correct the mistake.

Professor Groeteschele

And what's the difference between 60,000,000 dead and a hundred million?

Mr. Foster

Are you prepared to say the saving of 40,000,000 lives is of no importance?

Mr. Foster

You miss the point, Professor! The saving of those 60,000,000 lives is what's important!

Mr. Foster

In a nuclear war, everyone loses! War isn't what it used to be.

Mr. Foster

But what kind of resolution with a hundred million dead?!

Mr. Foster

A culture?! With most of its people dead?! The rest dying, the food poisoned! The air unfit to breathe! You call that a culture?!

Mr. Foster

But what would it be like? I mean, really like?! Who would survive?

Female Party Guest

You could joke about the convicts and file clerks because you know there won't be any survivors, will there?

Ilsa Woolfe

None. None at all. That's the beauty of it.

Ilsa Woolfe

People are afraid to call it that, but that's what they feel.

Ilsa Woolfe

Don't patronize me. What else but that are you selling, Professor? And we all know we're going to die, but you make a game out of it, a marvelous game that includes the whole world. You make it seem possible.

Ilsa Woolfe

You make death and entertainment something that can be played in a living room.

Ilsa Woolfe

No. No, there's an even better place. Turn in there.

Ilsa Woolfe