Watchmen quotes

View Quote Well, it was unprecedented. I wanted... needed to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity's teaching to our world, today. And so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men, but of the evils that beset them.

View Quote What, in life, does not deserve celebrating? This is the new Karnak. This represents the culmination of a dream more than 2000 years old. A dream now assured because of your unquestioning assistance. And for this, I am ashamed. Ashamed that you must now share such inadequate a reward. To the pharaohs. Their greatest secrets entrusted to their servants. Buried alive with them in sand-floored chambers. Sleep well, gentlemen. Our new, peaceful world will be indebted to your great sacrifice. Bubastis.

View Quote When you left me, I left Earth. Does that not show you I care?

View Quote Why would I save a world I no longer have any stake in?

View Quote You see, the Comedian was right. Humanity's savage nature will inevitably lead to global annihilation. So in order to save this planet, I had to trick it. With the greatest practical joke in human history.

View Quote Your finger is like licking a battery.

View Quote Your mind goes to dark places, and you wonder why I keep the worst from you.

View Quote Your turn, doctor. Tell me! [He slides his mask back down over his face] What do YOU see?