- Boy: Mister, hey mister, why do people go to the death?
- Peasant: For what? Hm. Clear for what: For life. Everyone wants a good life.
- Furmanov - Division Commissar: [Chapayev broke a stool in anger] Alexander the Grea was also a great commander, but why do you need to break the stools?
- Chapayev - Vasiliy Ivanovich: The Great? Commander? Who is it, why don't I know him? I know all great commanders. Garibaldi, Napoleon, Suvorov. Who is that "the Great"?
- Furmanov - Division Commissar: Not many people know about him. He lived two thousand years ago.
- Chapayev - Vasiliy Ivanovich: So you know him and I should know him. I know only two years by heart. Listen, commissar, tell me about Alexander the Great.