First posted on FB 5/6/13:

“Fire over England” (1937) Laurence Olivier to Vivien Leigh: “No, I’m not angry my dearest, but you must grow up. You see the whole trouble comes from treating your enemies like human beings. Can’t you see my dear that if you do that they cease to be enemies? Think what that leads to. It’s the end of patriotism, it’s the end of war, it’s the end of…of everything. Now do you see?”