Batman Begins

"Time permits no mercy. It only permits adaptation."

"Faith in anything other than one's own intellect is surrender."

"I have learned that beauty and horror are often indistinguishable."

"Freedom from fear is not freedom at all—it is the death of awareness."

"What others call destruction, I call the creative process of renewal."

"The mind is the battlefield, and I am merely an observer of its collapse."

"Inspiration comes to those willing to venture into the abyss."

"My life's work is a monument to what mankind could become."

"The courage to admit one's limitations is the beginning of wisdom."

"Change is not evolution; it is the natural decay of order."

"I have become the instrument through which truth is revealed."

"Fear is the most honest emotion; all others are merely its masks."

"Leadership requires the willingness to make decisions others will not."

"The pursuit of knowledge justifies any cost."

"Perseverance is the virtue of those with nowhere else to go."

"Relationships are merely arrangements of mutual exploitation."

"I have devoted myself to work that others lack the vision to understand."

"Every person believes themselves to be an exception until proven otherwise."

"In my experiments, I have learned what the mind values most: survival."

"Money is simply condensed power made portable."

"Humor is a defense mechanism for those afraid to face reality."

"The strong dominate; the weak submit. This is the law beneath all laws."

"I do not seek happiness; I seek purpose, and I have found it."

"Happiness is the narcotic that keeps the masses complacent."

"Love is the most dangerous delusion available to the human mind."

"Every friendship is a transaction masked by sentiment."

"What society calls insanity, I call clarity."

"Art is the expression of the artist's will imposed upon reality."

"My methods are cruel, but then, nature itself is cruel."

"Death is merely a transition, not a conclusion."