Samir Horn Quotes in Traitor (2008)

Samir Horn: You know that the Qu'ran says that if you kill an innocent person it's as if you've killed all mankind?

Roy Clayton: It also says that if you save a life its like you've saved all mankind... You're a hero Samir.

Samir Horn: Oh I'm a terrorist ?

Roy Clayton: I don't know you tell me , you've been selling them explosives.

Samir Horn: Oh I sell to who can afford to buy it... like the US Government.

Max Archer: Only ours don't kill innocent people

Samir Horn: Oh yeah they do genius, people just usually have darker skin

Samir Horn: If a man hasn't found something he's willing to die for, he isn't fit to live.

Samir Horn: I've been in a lot of battles. And it may have seemed like a suicide mission at the time, but we always had a plan to come home.

Omar: You must be willing to sacrifice some of your pawns if you want to win the game.

Samir Horn: I don't know.

Omar: I think you do. You risked your life to share your food with a stranger.

Samir Horn: That's not the same thing. I was just doing my duty. If I had known...

Omar: Jihadi is also your duty. Ahmed has told me what you have done in Afghanistan.

Samir Horn: Tactics have changed my friend.

Omar: Tactics have always changed. You don't defeat an empire fighting by their rules. Once upon a time it was the Americans who were terrorists to the British. They forgetting their history already.

Roy Clayton: [last lines - peace greeting] Al-Salamu Alaykum.

Samir Horn: Alaykum Al-Salaam. And you should *start* the conversation with that.

Samir Horn: [Regretting killing 2 innocent people] Allahom Eghferly... Allahom Eghferly ! (Oh Allah, Please forgive me!)

Samir Horn: [defying FBI agents] The only difference between you and him is he *knows* he's an asshole.

Omar: It's true what they say. War is the lesser Jihad. To overcome temptation, to live rightly, that is the great Jihad.

Samir Horn: And is that what we've been doing? Did you ever ask yourself that?

Samir Horn: The truth is complicated.