Quotes

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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus. Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it.

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Portuguese Soldier: [Upon seeing the mission, and hearing the Guaraní singing during mass] None of us wants to do this. Portuguese Commander: [On the verge of crying] I'm not interested. Take your position!

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Cabeza: I cannot and will not accept a challenge from a priest. His cloth protects him. Mendoza: My cloth protects *you*!

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[spoiler] So, your Holiness. Now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. But in truth it is I who am dead, and they who live. For as always, your Holiness. The spirit of the dead will survive in the memory of the living.

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Altamirano: Tell them they must leave the missions. They must submit to the will of God. Gabriel: They say it was the will of God that they came out of the jungle and built the mission. They don't understand why God has changed his mind.

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Mendoza: Are you laughing at me? Gabriel: I am laughing because what I see is laughable. I see a coward, a man running from the world.

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Mendoza: For me these is no redemption, no penance great enough. Gabriel: There is. But do you dare to try it? Mendoza: Do you dare to see it fail?

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Fielding: How long must he carry that stupid thing? Gabriel: God knows.

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Gabriel: So you're hunting above the falls now, Captain Mendoza? Gabriel: We're building a mission here. We're going to make Christians of these people! Mendoza: If you have the time.