Fritz Lang

“ Someone must stay with the machine."
"I will stay at the machine."
In the middle of the city was an old house.
Here lived Rotwang, the inventor.
"John Fredersen!"
"At last my work is ready."
"I have created a machine in the image of a man, that never tires or makes a mistake."
"Now we have no further use for living workers."
"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future——the machine men?"
"Give me another 24 hours, and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being." ”

“ The time has come to act!"
"Why should you sweat yourselves to death to benefit the Lord of Metropolis?"
"Who keeps the machines going?"
"Who are the slaves of the machines?"
"Let the machines stop!" ”

“ And great is Man.'"
"Those who had conceived the idea of this tower could not build it themselves, so they hired thousands of others to build for them."
"But these toilers knew nothing of the dreams of those who planned the tower."
"While those who had conceived the tower did not concern themselves with the workers who built it."
"The hymns of praise of the few became the curses of the many."
BABEL
[...] UND CROSS IST DER MENSCH
"Between the brain that plans and the hands that build there must be a mediator." ”