“Violence is a last resort -- one you don't use without thinking! -- And if you think, you can find another way...!”
Source: Amazing Adventures #14
“I've seen the big lie technique -- say anything loud enough, often enough, and it'll sound like the truth. But I considered it a tool of totalitarian governments, and not possible in America. I was wrong! Suddenly they capped their campaign by framing me-- --for murder!”
Source: Captain America (1968-1996) #154
“They already have their stories worked out. They just wait for events to fill in the blanks. When they don't fit. They get sidelined or twisted till they do.”
Source: ASTONISHING X-MEN, #7
“No matter how much we grow. How mature we fancy ourselves... Civilization ends up being no more than a veneer. Strip it away... We're all like Wolverine at heart.”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #276
“Little Moments
Actually Momentous”
“Yeah, well I'm a cop, Ma'am. I can tell you the X-Men aren't the only people sworn t'help a world that fears and hates y'all.”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #302
“D-don't kill me, p-please.
"Kill you"?! For being a barely braincelled, morally challanged, ethnically intolerant, poorly dressed backwards thinker?”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #302
“Jubilee, we come into this world alone -- -- and we leave the same way... The time we spend in between... ... time spent alive, sharing, learning... ... together... ... is all that makes life worth living.”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #303
“As an adult I will not stand by and let others-- --those you have arbitrarily decided are somehow 'unworthy,' 'undeserving' -- -- suffer as I have suffered before them!”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #304
“I assure you, my employers wish to be capturing him only. To kill him is to martyr him. To martyr him is to be advanceing his cause”
Source: X-Men Unlimited (1993-2003) #2