Nicodemus Quotes in The Secret of NIMH (1982)

[Presenting Mrs. Brisby with a glowing amulet]

Nicodemus: Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it's there.

Nicodemus: We can no longer live as rats. We know too much.

Nicodemus: Johnathan, wherever you are, your thoughts must comfort her tonight. She will be waiting, and you will not return.

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Nicodemus: Johnathan Brisby was killed today while helping with the plan. It is four years since our departure from NIMH, and our world is changing. We cannot stay here much longer. Johnathan was a dear friend. I am lost in knowing how to help his widow. She knows nothing about us or the plan. Perhaps best that I do nothing at present. I shall miss him. Johnathan - wherever you are - your thoughts must comfort her tonight. She will be waiting and you will not return. Farewell... my friend.

Nicodemus: Johnathan, your wife has come at last. Perhaps now I can repay you for your kindness to me, yet Mrs. Brisby may serve the rats of NIMH more than we her. Jenner, I fear, could do her harm. He is consumed by a lust for power. Thus far the amulet has remained safely hidden, but if he finds it... Heaven help us.

Nicodemus: In the beginning, we were ordinary street rats, stealing our daily bread, and living off the efforts of man's work. We were captured, put in cages, and sent to a place called NIMH. There were other animals there, in cages. They were put through the most unspeakable torture, to satisfy some scientific curiosity. Often, at night, I would hear them cry out in anguish. Twenty rats and eleven mice were given injections. Our world began changing.

Nicodemus: Johnathan could not tell you about us because the injections slowed the aging process. You see, you would have grown old, while he remained young.

Annas: Yes, we'll listen to those that have heard your blashpemies. Good! Let's hear them!

Accuser: He cures the sick by magic! With the help of devils! I've seen it. He casts out devils, with the help of devils.

Accuser: He calls himself the King of the Jews!

Accuser: No, he calls himself the Son of God! He said he would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days!

Accuser: Worse! He claims he's the Bread of Life! And if we don't eat his flesh or drink his blood we won't inherit eternal life.

Caiphas: Silence! You're all under this man's spell. Either offer proof of his wrongdoing or be quiet!

Nicodemus: This entire proceeding is an outrage. All I've heard from these "witnesses" is mindless contradiction!