Colonel Kane Quotes in The Ninth Configuration (1980)

Colonel Kane: You're convinced that God is dead because there's evil in the world.

Captain Cutshaw: Correct.

Colonel Kane: Then why don't you think He's alive because of the goodness in the world?

Colonel Kane: Maybe we're just fish out of water.

Col. Richard Fell: What was that?

Colonel Kane: I just think about sickness, cancer in children, earthquakes, war, painful death. Death, just death. If these things are just part of our natural environment why do we think of them as evil? Why do they horrify us so?... unless we were meant for someplace else.

[Captain Cutshaw stomps in wearing scuba flippers]

Captain Cutshaw: Take me to the beach.

Colonel Kane: It's night, and it's raining.

Captain Cutshaw: I see you're determined to start an argument.

Colonel Kane: [Reading the back of a St. Christopher medal aloud] "I am a Buddhist. In case of emergency, call a lama."

Captain Cutshaw: Can you prove there's a foot?

Colonel Kane: There are some arguments from reason.

Captain Cutshaw: Are those the things we use to justify dropping atomic bombs on Japan?

Lt. Frankie Reno: Why are you teaching the dogs Shakespeare?

Colonel Kane: Someone's got to do it.