Angels & Demons Quotes

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Christianity's most sacred codices are in that archive. Given your recent... entanglement with the Church, there is a question I'd like to ask you first here in-in the office of His Holiness.
[Walks towards Robert Langdon]
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Do you believe in God, sir?
Robert Langdon:

[pause] Father, I simply believe that religion...
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believe in God.
Robert Langdon: [pause] I'm an academic. My mind tells me I will never... understand God.
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: And your heart?
Robert

Langdon: [pause] Tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift... that I have yet to receive.
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: [pauses to consider his words] Be delicate with our treasures.

Richter: He said they'd be killed publicly.
Robert Langdon: Yes. Revenge... for La Purga.
Richter: La Purga?
Robert Langdon: Oh, geez, you guys don't even read your own history, do you? 1668, the Church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the

cross... to purge them of their sins, and they executed them. Threw their bodies out into the street as a warning to others to stop questioning Church ruling on scientific matters. They radicalized them. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on... on retribution.

Robert Langdon: I need access to the Vatican Archives.
Inspector Olivetti: Professor, I don't think this is the appropriate moment.
Richter: Your petition has been denied seven times.
Robert Langdon: No, no. This has nothing to do with my work. The Path of Illumination is a hidden trail through Rome itself

that leads to the Church of the Illumination, the place where the Illuminati would meet in secret. If I can find the Segno, the sign, that marks the beginning of that path, the four churches along it may be where he intends to murder your Cardinals. One every hour at 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00. Then the device explodes... at midnight. If we can figure out the first church and get there before he

does, may be we can stop it. But I can't find the start of the path until I get into the Archives.
Richter: Even if I wanted to help you, access to the Archives is only by written decree by the curator and the Board of Vatican Librarians.
Robert Langdon: Or by papal mandate.
Richter: Yes, but as you no doubt have heard, the

Holy Father is dead.
Robert Langdon: What about Il Carmerlengo?
Richter: The Carmerlengo is just a priest here, the former Pope's chamberlain.
Robert Langdon: Doesn't the power of the Holy See rest in him during Tempo Sede Vacante?
[all the Vatican police men look at each other, with various degrees of doubt and

uncertainty]
Robert Langdon: Fellas... you called me.

Robert Langdon: The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th Century. Their name means "The Enlightened Ones." They were physicists and mathematicians, astronomers. They were concerned with the Church's inaccurate teaching and they were dedicated to scientific truth. But the Vatican didn't like that. So the Church began to... how did you say it? Oh, "Hunt them down and

kill them."

[Police have been ordered to return Langdon to the Vatican]
Robert Langdon: [to poiice] The Vatican is about to see its fourth Cardinal murdered tonight! Now, look... You can do as they say and force me back to the Vatican, where we can all mourn his death together. Or you can show how real cops act, and take me to the Piazza Navona, where we still might be able to stop it!

[the police start conferring between themselves]
Robert Langdon: Oh, by all means, let's talk it over. In 14 minutes, he's gonna be dead!

Inspector Olivetti: Where did you get that paper?
Vittoria Vetra: We borrowed it.
Robert Langdon: [reading paper with magnifier] "From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole...
Inspector Olivetti: Are you insane?
Robert Langdon: ...Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of

light is laid, the sacred test. Let angels guide thee on they lofty quest."
Inspector Olivetti: You removed a document from the Vatican Archives?
Robert Langdon: [points at Vittoria] She did.

Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: [after breaking into Conclave and announcing that church is at war] ... but science and religion are not enemies! There are simply some things that science is just too young to understand. So the church pleads: "stop", "slow down", "think", "wait"... and for this - they call us backward. But who is more ignorant: the man who cannot define lightning, or

the man who does not respect its natural awesome power?

Vittoria Vetra: You know, the worst thing we thought would happen... was that our work would fall into the hands of the energy companies... We thought we could change the world... So naive.
Robert Langdon: No, no. Not naive. Innocent, maybe. But that's not a crime.
Vittoria Vetra: I'm not so sure.
Robert

Langdon: Go back to work. Change the world.