Judge Dredd Quotes

Judge Hershey: [as her dead partner is being taken away] Damn it! I was supposed to be watching out for him.
Judge Dredd: Don't blame yourself, Hershey. He made the mistake, not you.
Judge Hershey: Wouldn't it feel good to have an emotion once in a while, huh?
Judge Dredd: Emotions? There ought to be a law

against them.

Judge Dredd: [pulling Fergie, by the mouth, out of the service robot he's been hiding in and slamming him against a wall] Mega City code 7592: Willful sabotage of a public droid. That's 6 months, citizen. Let's see your Unicard.
Fergie: Come on, give me a break, Judge, uh,
[looks at Dredd's badge]
Fergie: Dredd. *Dredd*? God!

Judge Hershey: [scanning Fergie's Unicard] Ferguson, Herman. Hacker. Illegal tampering with city droids, computers, cash machines, taxi robots...
Judge Dredd: And you haven't even been out of jail for 24 hours. He's habitual, Hershey. Automatic 5 year sentence. How do you plead?
Fergie: Not guilty?
Judge

Dredd: I knew you'd say that.
Fergie: 5 years? No! No! I had no choice! They were killing each other in there!
Judge Dredd: You could have gone out the window.
Fergie: 40 floors? It would have been suicide!
Judge Dredd: Maybe, but it's legal.

Judge Dredd: [sentencing the Block Warlord] Mega City Municiple Code, 213: Willfull destruction of property, that's two years. Code 310: Illegal possession of assault weapons, five years. Code 457: Resisting arrest, TWENTY years!
[one of the wounded squatters jumps up to shoot Dredd, Hershey quickly shoots him]
Judge Dredd: Thank you, Hershey. And

code 3613... the first degree murder of a Street Judge...
Block Warlord: Let me guess, life.
[he goes for his gun, but Dredd shoots him first]
Judge Dredd: Death. Court's adjourned.

Judge Dredd: [to a class of cadets, after shooting at a mannequin wearing the Judges' helmet and body armor] Kevlar 9 helmet and body armor. Yours, when you graduate.
[he picks up another gun]
Judge Dredd: Lawgiver 2. 25 round sidearm with mission-variable voice-programmed ammunition. Signal flare.
Lawgiver: Flare.
[he shoots a flare at

the wall. The cadets flinch from the bright red light]
Judge Dredd: Yours, *if* you graduate.
[walks over to a Lawmaster bike]
Judge Dredd: Mark 4 Lawmaster, improved model. With dual onboard laser cannons, vertical takeoff and landing capability, range 500 kilometres. Men?
Technician: Yes, sir.
[they switch the bike on]

Lawmaster: Active.
[the bike starts to rise above the ground but then it splutters and sparks]
Lawmaster: Malfunction. Malfunction. Malfunction.
[the bike drops back onto the ground as the engine stalls]
Judge Dredd: Yours, if you can ever get it to work.
[the cadets laugh. Dredd doesn't]

[Dredd and Fergie are about to run down an incinerator vent which blasts flames every 30 seconds]
Judge Dredd: Right, you ready, kid?
Fergie: No!
Judge Dredd: Now what's wrong?
Fergie: What's wrong? Are you kidding? Did wearing that helmet all those years compress your brain? You're going to get me

killed!
Judge Dredd: There's a maniac loose in the city!
Fergie: What a coincidence, there's one out here too!

Rico: Why are you here? Have you come for another chat?
Warden Miller: Just a short one, I'm afraid. Duty calls.
Rico: Ah, duty. Keeping these parasites here, at the public's expense.
Warden Miller: Yeah. You especially.
Rico: I don't cost anything. I'm a ghost. And we're both prisoners

here. You're behind your desk and I'm behind this.
[he indicates the forcefield surrounding his prison cell]
Rico: What a clever reward from Fargo. I mean, considering the services.
Warden Miller: When you start killing innocent people, Rico, you went beyond service.
Rico: The innocent exist only until they inevitably

become perpetrators. Guilt and innocence is a matter of timing.

[first lines]
Narrator: In the third millennium, the world changed. Climate, nations, all were in upheaval. The Earth transformed into a poisonous, scorched desert, known as "The Cursed Earth". Millions of people crowded into a few Megacities, where roving bands of street savages created violence the justice system could not control. Law, as we know it, collapsed. From the

decay rose a new order, a society ruled by a new, elite force. A force with the power to dispense both justice and punishment. They were the police, jury and executioner all in one. They were the Judges.