20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

Arthur Byron: Warden Paul Long

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• The Warden - Paul Long : Listen, Finn, I'm running this prison, and while I'm running it, I'll run it without politicians and without bribes. People on the outside are supposed to be created free and equal, but they aren't. Here they really are. One inmate's as good as another inmate, but no better. Now clear out and don't come back! When you get back to yur ward, tell those boys you were talking to about that. I don't want any of them around here any more than I want a flock of maggots! And if Connors's got any ideas that he's going to get any favors, he'll find out differently right away.

  Joe Finn : But you don't understand!

  The Warden - Paul Long : [Dismissively]  That's all.

• The Warden - Paul Long : [to Connors]  ... and remember this, if two men in this place know anything, I know it.

• The Warden - Paul Long : One of these days you'll learn, Connors, that no man has a spot in this world, except in relation to the people around him. That, you've got to be useful to live.

  Tommy Connors : Save that for Sunday, Warden. And let me pass the plate.