"Trouble with you self-professed heroes is you actually believe you're in it for the good of the people. I think you just get off playing Mr. Son-of-God. People want me to do a job. They pay. That's called reality." -Deathstroke.
"Afghanistan taught me I was above morality. Above taking orders from hate mongers whose patriotic salutes masked their zealous pursuit of that most pointless of human endeavors. War. Instead, I would become my own man. My own country. And its only endeavor would be in pursuit of the primary foundation. FOR. all humankind's prosperity: A strong economy. PROFIT." -Deathstroke.
Pain? I know pain at the molecular level, it pulls at my atoms, sings to me in an alphabet of fear. I am the boiling man come to break the bones of your sins meet puppet.
"You need but to look within yourselves to find the people you need to keep this nation strong... and, God willing, to help make the dream come true!" -Captain America
I used this quote in my Character Class final in college, I even mentioned that it was from Captain America, and listed the issue. And yes I passed.
"I am MAGNETO! This is my home. I am rapidly losing interest in whatever you choose to do on the Earth's surface - despoil the environment, slaughter yourselves to the last child, I no longer care - But I refuse to allow you to export your penchant for violence to my very doorstep." -Magneto
“In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.” - Doctor Manhattan
Love that one.
Along with "The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'…and I’ll look down, and whisper 'No.' - Rorschach
I still think Watchmen has the greatest quotes.
Along with Joker's monologue in the Killing Joke. Particularly "All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day..."
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