Dr. Arnim Zola Quotes in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Col. Chester Phillips: Sit down.

[Colonel Phillips puts down a tray of food at a table]

Dr. Arnim Zola: What is this?

Col. Chester Phillips: Steak.

Dr. Arnim Zola: What is in it?

Col. Chester Phillips: Cow.

Dr. Arnim Zola: I don't eat meat.

Col. Chester Phillips: Why not?

Dr. Arnim Zola: It disagrees with me.

Col. Chester Phillips: How about cyanide? Does that give you the rumbly tummy, too?

[Schmidt and Zola go to the rooftop, where a one-man escape helicopter is waiting]

Dr. Arnim Zola: What about me? Where will I sit?

Red Skull: [hands the key to his car to Zola] Not a scratch, Doctor. Not a scratch.

Dr. Arnim Zola: Schmidt believes he walks in the footsteps of the gods.

Col. Chester Phillips: Hm!

Dr. Arnim Zola: Only the world itself will satisfy him.

Col. Chester Phillips: Did you realize that's nuts, don't you?

Dr. Arnim Zola: The insanity of the plan is of no consequence.

Col. Chester Phillips: And why is that?

Dr. Arnim Zola: Because he can do it!

Col. Chester Phillips: What's his target?

Dr. Arnim Zola: His target is everywhere.

[Zola tests the Cube on a machine]

Dr. Arnim Zola: Twenty... forty... sixty... stabilizing at seventy percent.

Johann Schmidt: I have not come all this way for safety, doctor.

[switches the machine to full power]

Dr. Arnim Zola: HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize was that if you tried to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded, and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew, a beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D. For 70 years, HYDRA has been secretly feeding crises, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed.

Natasha Romanoff: That's impossible. S.H.I.E.L.D. would've stopped you.

Dr. Arnim Zola: Accidents will happen. HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's New World Order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your life, a zero sum!

Steve Rogers: Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked with the Red Skull. He's been dead for years.

Dr. Arnim Zola: [inside a machine] First correction, I am Swiss. Second, look around you, I have never been more alive! In 1972, I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body. My mind, however, that was worth saving... on two hundred thousand feet of data banks! You are standing in my brain!

[Steve smashes in Zola's screen]

Dr. Arnim Zola: [appears on another screen] As I was saying...

Dr. Arnim Zola: Cut off one head two more shall take its place.

Natasha Romanoff: After WWII, S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited German scientists with strategic value.

Dr. Arnim Zola: So I could help their cause. I also helped my own.

Steve Rogers: HYDRA died with the Red Skull.

Dr. Arnim Zola: Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.

Dr. Arnim Zola: [to Steve] We are both men out of time.