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Quotes about The Prisoner

If I could do it again, I would. As long as people feel something, that's the great thing. It's when they are walking around not thinking and not feeling, that's tough. When you get a mob like that, you can turn them into the sort of gang that Hitler had. —Patrick McGoohan in 1984, on the outrage that followed the series finale

Quotes from The Prisoner

Number Two: I am definitely an optimist. That's why it doesn't matter who Number One is. It doesn't matter which "side" runs the Village. Number Six: It's run by one side or the other. Number Two: Oh, certainly, but both sides are becoming identical. What in fact has been created is an international community -- a perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that this is the pattern for the future. Number Six: The whole Earth as the Village? Number Two: That is my hope. What's yours? Number Six: I'd like to be the first man on the moon. —The Chimes of Big Ben

Nadia: Thank you, Mister...? Number Six: Sorry, no names. I am Number 6. You are Number 8. —The Chimes of Big Ben

I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own. —Number Six

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