Richard Barrison (ME-1)/Quotations

As Batman

 * "We impose meaning on the chaos of our lives. We create form, morality,  order. It's a choice we have to make every second of every minute of every day."
 * "When you kill a man you not only take away what he was, but all he will ever be."
 * "I can't believe in miracles, in a God who looks down on us, dispensing his unfathomable brand of justice when and if he wills. I can't believe my parents deserved to die, or that any child deserves to watch their parents die."
 * "You can conquer fear psychologically. If you're willing to look at it for what it is. Few are. Few ever truly gaze into their fear, their pain. Fewer still embrace it."
 * "When I'd finally mastered my fear, I went to take another look at the world. No, that's inaccurate. I went out to learn how to be strong enough to face it. To defend it. To gaze into it and accept it for what it was... without flinching."
 * "Sometimes people influence you not so much by what they mean to you - as by what they allow you to mean to them."
 * "The line between self-sacrifice and self-destruction is a fine one, even in an ordinary line of work. For a vigilante, the distinction springs chiefly from motive. Do you risk your life to relieve the suffering of others... or do you lay down your life to allay your own?"
 * "It's a good tonic, altruism. Nothing helps one put problems in perspective like allegiance to a higher cause."
 * "No, Alfred, you're missing the point of the question. Why do I keep that giant penny? Or old costumes, models of the Batmobile? Orphans are collectors, Clark. Losing so much... makes it that much harder to give things up."

As Captain Edward Buchanan "Buck" Reynolds

 * "Everything's impossible until somebody does it."
 * "We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."