- [after Beecher contradicted Schillinger on Jesus Christs's true ethnicity]
- Vern Schillinger: You're gettin' awful mouthy, prag.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: No, sir. I'm not.
- Vern Schillinger: Yeah, I'm gonna have to teach you a lesson.
- [kicks a chair out and extends his legs]
- Vern Schillinger: Polish my boots.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: Yes, sir.
- [Beecher spits on a handkerchief and prepares to polish Schillinger's boots]
- Vern Schillinger: With your tongue!
- [the other Aryans laugh as Beecher proceeds to lick Schillinger's boots]
- Governor James Devlin: McManus, when you look at me, what do you see?
- Tim McManus: A man.
- Governor James Devlin: You've heard of Olympus, right? Mount Olympus, ancient Greece, where the gods lived?
- Tim McManus: Yeah.
- Governor James Devlin: Well, it was a hierarchy, even among the gods. Mercury was lesser than Apollo, Apollo lesser than Zeus. Now, you run your cellblock and you think you're a god. Glynn runs the whole prison, he thinks he's a greater god. Well, guys, I am Zeus. I am omnipotent. I must be obeyed... or my thunderbolts will strike.
- Vern Schillinger: So how was church, sweet pea? You feeling all sanctified and pure?
- Vern Schillinger: [beat] Get undressed! We're having a shower.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: I already had a shower.
- Vern Schillinger: That's okay. When I get through with you, you'll *need* another one.
- [Reflecting on his childhood]
- Ryan O'Reily: Yeah, I learned the alphabet the hard way. DEA. HIV. IOU.
- Leo Glynn: People, we've got three murders in two weeks. I got the Commissioner yelling in my ear and the press shoved up my ass. The Governor's threatening to send in the feds. And my daughter wants to move into an apartment with her boyfriend. Somebody, help me out here.
- [first lines]
- Augustus Hill: In the beginning, God was nothingness. So he started making stuff. He made the dirt, he made the sky, he made the water, he made things that swim, things that slither, things with legs. I mean, God turned himself into a big shot. Then, in a couple of days, or a couple of million years, he breathed life into man. And he's been sucking the life out of us ever since.
- Leo Glynn: If one more fight breaks out, I'm going to shut this prison down so hard, so fast, you won't see daylight 'til the third millenium. Everybody got that?
- Augustus Hill: They say confession is good for the soul. You go into a confessional and you can tell a priest anything. Anything. And he can't repeat it. You go into an interview room with your local PD and say what you've done, well, the cops will tell the DA and the papers and everybody else. So you do some deed and you want to clear your conscience and still get away with it, well, tell your mama or tell a priest.
- [last lines]
- Augustus Hill: God knows he's perfect and we're not and we can never be but he expects us to be. And he punishes us if we're not, you know what I'm saying? God is the ultimate gangster. The supremo boss, you know what I mean? Forgiveness, live by his code. Deadness, if we don't. Yo, he never has to talk to us face to face and he never has to explain exactly why he does what he does. Know what I'm saying? Nigger sits up there in Heaven somewhere, drinking a cappuccino, chilling...
- [singing]
- Augustus Hill: "Got the whole world in his hands." He got the whole world by the balls. In excelsius deo and all that shit.
- Jefferson Keane aka Tizi Ouzou: [on the phone, to his father-in-law] Yeah, I'm telling you a liar, motherfucker, because you ain't telling me the truth.
- Augustus Hill: [Hill is spinning around with an absent-minded Alvarez, talking to the audience] Here's a pop quiz! Name the seven deadly sins. C'mon. You saw that Brad Pitt movie. Lust, yeah, well, everybody gets that one. Huh, Gluttony? Sure. Greed, yeah. Envy, Sloth, Anger, or to be a little more technical, Wrath. What else? WHAT ELSE? Let me put it this way, if you think you knew the answer and because of that, you think you're better than everybody else, THEN YOUR GUILTY OF IT! Ha ha!