1. • “But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude—and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core…” 57-58

2. •. “Kurtz discoursed. A voice. A voice. It rang deep to the very last
• “Kurtz discoursed. A voice! A voice! It rang deep to the very last. It survived his strength to hide in the magnificent folds of eloquence the barren darkness of his heart.” 67
• “His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.” 68

3. • “…but bowing my head before the faith that was in her, before that great and saving illusion that shone with an unearthly glow in the darkness, in the triumphant darkness from which I could not have defended her—from which I could not even defend myself.” 74

4. „Then only the evil and vice inherent in each thing can cause its destruction. If it is impervious to them, nothing else could destroy it.” Plato, The Republic, 299

5. „And surely it is unreasonable to suppose that anything can be destroyed by some alien evil and not by the evil specific to itself…Evil cannot prevail against something that is alien to it.” Plato, The Republic, 300

6. „Next, the prophet flung out the life styles and patterns on the ground before them…but in none of them was there any fixing of the quality of the soul, since each soul develops differently according to the life it chooses.” Plato, The Republic, 308

7. „…so that he might always and everywhere make the best choice …” Plato, The Republic, 308

11. „By every measure, then, reality for the prisoners would be nothing but shadows cast by artifacts.” Plato, The Republic, 210

13. „As for the charges, I'm unconcerned.
I'm beyond their lying morality.
And so, I'm beyond caring.” –Letter from Kurtz to his son read by Willard

14. „You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that
„You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me…You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us... „ Colonel Kurtz, Apocalypse Now

15. „The heart of darkness that we were looking for did not belong to another culture, another place, but was part of ourself. Kurtz represents this, Kurtz represents the dark side of civility.” –Vittorio Storraro, cinematographer at Cannes Film Festival