Bruce Wayne quotes from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Mr. Wayne! Mr. Wayne! Clark Kent, Daily Planet.

Oh, my foundation has already issued a statement in support of– books.

Sir?

Wow! Pretty girl – bad habit. Don't quote me, alright?

What's your position on the bat vigilante in Gotham?

"Daily Planet"– Wait, do I own this one? Or was that the other guy?

Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear.

Don't believe everything you hear, son.

I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law.

The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff-piece editorial about an alien who – if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it.

Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.

Maybe it's that Gotham City in me. We just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.

Lex Luthor

Boys! Mmm, Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent. Ah, I love it! I love bringing people together! How are we? [Shakes Bruce's hand] Hi, hello.

Lex.

Lex Luthor

Lex. It is a pleasure– Ow! Wow! That is a good grip! You should not pick a fight with this person!

We're criminals, Alfred. We've always been criminals. Nothing's changed.

Alfred Pennyworth

Oh, yes it has, sir. Everything's changed. Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die. That's how it starts, sir. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men– cruel.

You don’t know me, but I've known a few women like you.

I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.

Alfred Pennyworth

You're gonna go to war?

That son of a bitch brought the war to us two years ago. Jesus, Alfred, count the dead. Thousands of people. What's next? Millions? He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there's a ONE percent chance that he is our enemy we have to take it as an absolute certainty... and we have to destroy him.

Alfred Pennyworth

But he is NOT our enemy!

Not today... but twenty years in Gotham, Alfred... we've seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?

Alfred Pennyworth

You know you can't win this. It's suicide.

I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.

Alfred Pennyworth

Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing?

Criminals are like weeds, Alfred – pull one up, another grows in its place. This is about the future of the world. It's my legacy. You know, my father sat me down right here. Told me what Wayne Manor was built on.

Alfred Pennyworth

Railroads, real estates, and oil.

The first generation made their fortune trading with the French. Pelts and skins. They were hunters.

All the circuses back east – burying an empty box.

They don't know how to honor him. Except as a soldier.

I've failed him– in life. I won't fail him in death. Help me find the others like you.

Perhaps they don't want to be found.

They will. And they'll fight. We have to stand together.

A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind – from a century of horrors. Man made a world where standing together is impossible.

Men are still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.

The others like me. Why did you say they'll have to fight?

Just a feeling.