- Georges: I'm not going to bring them more instability just because you suddenly feel it may get dangerous.
- Georges: You are a mile away from nazi Germany where an extremely popular leader is preparing the most powerful army in the history of Europe to conquering a neighboring country while he blames all possible evil on the Jews.
- Emma: We must train and grow with the Resistance. We need to find guns, we need to learn how to shoot, we need to learn explosives. They're not humans. No human would do that to another.
- Marcel Marceau: While you were there, I filled myself with hate and of course I did feel an urge for revenge but the more I thought about it, the only thing in my mind was why are we here, fighting a war we can't win... when we could be taking orphan children to another country before the Nazis get to them?
- Emma: We can't leave now.
- Marcel Marceau: But what can we truly accomplish?
- Emma: We can fight back. We found homes for the children, safe places.
- Marcel Marceau: No place is safe for them as long as they're in a country that's occupied by Nazis and the little fighting that we can do...
- Emma: We can slow them down! We can make it impossible for them in France.
- Marcel Marceau: What is it the Nazis want?
- Emma: What?
- Marcel Marceau: They don't care about Klaus Barbie you know, or a bunch of Gestapo slaves that we may kill, if we are lucky...
- Emma: No, you are right. They care about killing us like they killed her.
- Marcel Marceau: So, what's the best way to resist? It's not to kill them. They're ready to die! If you want to resist, we have to make sure more Jews survive.
- Emma: How can you not want to go and murder him?
- Marcel Marceau: Of course I want to murder Barbie! I want Hitler to die as well, but we can't kill all the Nazis.
- Emma: We can kill some.
- Marcel Marceau: Or you can save some lives. And maybe one day those Nazis will be captured while the kids we saved go on and form families.
- Emma: What about those who already died?
- Marcel Marceau: What do you think they would want us to do? Risk our lives to take revenge on their killers or do it to help their orphans survive?
- Emma: We have to save the children.
- Marcel Marceau: We will.
- General Patton: [addressing the troops] If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. Courage is no more than fear holding on a minute longer.
- General Patton: Now imagine fighting this war as a civilian. Imagine not knowing how to shoot a gun, and challenging the Nazis to save lives.
- Marcel Marceau: I don't fight, okay. I think, therefore I am.
- Alain: We've been thinking for 5,000 years. Maybe it's time to try something else.