Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Anna Berger: Aunt May
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Quotes
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Aunt May : Are you telling me that you prefer God to the Truth?
Sol Rosenthal : If necessary, I will always choose God over Truth.
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Aunt May : Remember: History is written by the winners. And if the Nazis had won, the future generations would understand the story of World War ll quite differently.
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Aunt May : There's this joke about the prizefighter who enters the ring. And his brother turns to the family priest and says "Father, Pray for him." And the priest said "I will. But, if he can punch, it'll help."
Rabbi : So what are you saying May? You're saying you're challenging the whole moral structure of everything?
Aunt May : What moral structure? Is that the kind of nonsense you use on your pupils?
Rabbi : Do you not find human impulses basically decent?
Aunt May : There's basically nothing!
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Aunt May : This is the 20th Century. You have young boys sitting here. Don't fill their heads with superstitions.
Sol Rosenthal : Ah, the intellectual school teacher. Spare us your - your Leninists philosophy just this once!
Aunt May : You're afraid if you don't obey the rules, God's going to punish you?
Sol Rosenthal : He won't punish me, May. He punishes the wicked.
Aunt May : Oh, who? Like Hitler!
Sol Rosenthal : May, how do say that?
Aunt May : Six million Jews burnt to death and he got away with it!
