Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!!
Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The
Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It
is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There
are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There
is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven,
interacting, multivariate, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars,
electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this
planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and
galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature,
and YOU WILL ATONE!
Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There
is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow,
Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get
out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and
compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of
corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a
business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will
live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or
brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a
common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all
anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.
Beale: But why me?
Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of
the week, Monday through Friday.
