Black Manta

"Your faith in heroes is misplaced. Heroes fall just like anyone else."

"Work for nothing, and you deserve nothing. I work for dominion."

"Dreams are for the weak. I deal in reality and results."

"Even in darkness, there is a certain kind of beauty."

"Patience is a weapon wielded by the truly powerful."

"Kindness is a mutation I have burned out of myself."

"I do not ask for understanding. Compliance is sufficient."

"The surface world has forgotten what true danger looks like."

"My ambitions are not small. They are oceanic in scale."

"Life teaches harsh lessons to those who listen."

"Love is a liability. I have eliminated mine."

"Wisdom comes from understanding your enemy better than yourself."

"Happiness is a fleeting illusion. Power is eternal."

"True friendship requires vulnerability. I am not vulnerable."

"Family loyalty is a concept for those still clinging to the surface world."

"Hope is what keeps people shackled to their mediocrity."

"To conquer requires the courage to embrace your darkest nature."

"Change comes when the old order is destroyed. I am the destroyer."

"Education teaches compromise. I have learned only conquest."

"Truth is that the strong will always dominate the weak."

"Peace is only achieved through overwhelming force."

"Art is the expression of human limitation. I surpass all art."

"Science seeks to explain the mysteries I have mastered."

"Music is noise. Silence is power."

"I have been reborn in fire and fury. Your world will follow."

"Solitude in the depths taught me what the surface never could."

"Money flows to those with the will to take it."

"Health is strength. Weakness is disease to be purged."

"Adventure is what the soft-minded call conquest."

"Imagination is a tool. Reality is a weapon."