Simoun: (to Basilio) I will let you live and I trust I will not regret it. You have labored, you have struggled with energetic perseverance… And like me, you have accounts to settle with society.
 Simoun: You bond together so that with your efforts you can bind your country to Spain with garlands of roses, when in reality you are forging her chains harder than diamond!
*listening*
Simoun: What will you be in the future? A people without character, a nation without liberty. Everything in you will be borrowed, even your very defects.
*confused*
Simoun: As long as a people conserve their language they preserve the security of their liberty.
Simoun: Those among you who speak that language are indifferent to their own tongue, so much so that they neither write nor understand it. How many have I seen who pretend not to know a single word of it!
Simoun: Resignation is not always a virtue. It is a crime when it encourages tyrannies.
Simoun: Have patience.
Simoun: Patriotism can only be a crime in the oppressor nations
Simoun: I am the Judge come to punish a social system through its own crimes; make war against it by flattering it…
Simoun: Science is not the end of man
Basilio: All the vindications of justice, all the vengeance of the earth, would not bring back a single lock of my mother’s hair, or renew a smile on my brother’s lips.