Don Lope de Aguirre: That man is a head taller than me. That may change.
Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes...
Don Lope de Aguirre: Perucho, don't you think the cannon might be a little bit rusty? Perucho: It might.
[last lines] Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the wrath of God. Who else is with me?
Okello: [Hallucinating] That is no ship. That is no forest. [Arrow hits him] Okello: That is no arrow. We just imagine the arrows because we fear them.
Don Fernando de Guzman: All the land to our left and all the land to our right now belongs to us. I solemnly and formally take possession of all this land. Our country is already six times larger than Spain, and every day we drift makes it bigger. Do...
Don Lope de Aguirre: I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter, and with her I'll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen.
Brother Gaspar de Carvajal: 'Thou lettest man flow on like a river, and Thy years know no end. As for man, his days are like grass as a flower on the field, so he blossoms. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall kno...
Balthasar: I was a prince in this land. No one was allowed to look directly into my eyes. But now I'm in chains, like my people, and I must bow my head. Almost everything was taken from us. I can't do anything; I'm powerless. But I am also sorry for ...