The Lawgiver Quotes in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

[first lines]

Title Card: North America, 2670 A.D.

The Lawgiver: In the beginning God created beast and man so that both might live in friendship and share dominion over a world of peace. But in the fullness of time evil men betrayed God's trust and in disobedience to His holy word waged bloody wars, not only against their own kind, but against the apes, whom they reduced to slavery. Then God in his wrath sent the world a saviour, miraculously born of two apes who descended on Earth from Earth's own future and man was afraid for both parent apes possessed the power of speech

Black girl: Lawgiver, who knows about the future?

The Lawgiver: Perhaps only the dead.

The Lawgiver: Yet in the aftermath of Caesar's victory, the surface of the world was ravaged by the vilest war in human history. The great cities of the world split asunder and were flattened.