Bane quotes from The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Bane

Now, now, doctor, this is no time for fear. That comes later!

Bane

Calm down, doctor! Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.

Bane

Speak of the devil and he shall appear!

Bane

We both know I have to kill you now. I suppose you'll just have to imagine the fire.

If I take off that mask, will you die?

Bane

It would be extremely painful...

You're a big guy.

Bane

… for you.

Bruce

Why didn't you just... kill me?

Bane

You don't fear death. You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.

Bruce

Torture?

Bane

Yes. But not of your body... Of your soul.

Bruce

Where am I?

Bane

Home, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has rotted here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clambering over each other to stay in the sun. You can watch me torture an entire city, and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny. We will destroy Gotham and then, when it is done, and Gotham is...ashes... then you have my permission to die.

Bane

Behind you stands a symbol of oppression. Blackgate Prison, where a thousand men have languished under the name of this man, Harvey Dent, [holds picture of Dent] who has been held up to you as the shining example of justice!

Blake

Commissioner, we need to keep you moving until we can get you in front of a camera.

Bane

You have been supplied with a false idol [tears up picture] to stop you tearing down this CORRUPT CITY! Let me tell you the truth about Harvey Dent from the words of Gotham's police commissioner, James Gordon. [reads text of speech] "The Batman didn't murder Harvey Dent. He saved my boy, then took the blame for Harvey's appalling crimes so I could, to my shame, build a lie around this fallen idol. I praised the madman who tried to murder my own child. But I can no longer live with my lie. It is time to trust the people of Gotham with the truth, and it is time for me to resign." [calls to prisoners] And do you accept this man's resignation? [prisoners roar with approval] And do you accept the resignation of all of these liars?! Of all the corrupt?!?

Blake

Those men locked up for eight years in Blackgate and denied parole under the Dent Act, based on a lie?

Gotham needed a hero.

Blake

It needs one now more than ever. You betrayed everything it stood for.

There's a point, far out there, when the structures fail you. When the rules aren't weapons anymore, they're shackles, letting the bad guy get ahead... One day, you may face such a moment of crisis, and in that moment, I hope you have a friend like I did! To plunge their hands into the filth, so that you can keep yours clean!!!

Blake

Your hands look plenty filthy to me, Commissioner.

Bane

We take Gotham from the corrupt, the rich, the oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you - the people. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere, do as you please. [one of Bane's captured Tumbler Cannons blows a hole in the prison's gates, allowing his followers inside] But start by storming Blackgate and freeing the oppressed! Step forward, those who would serve! For an army will be raised. The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Courts will be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed! Blood will be shed! The police will survive, as they learn to serve true justice. This great city... it will endure. Gotham will survive.

At least you can talk. Who are you?

It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is our plan.

Bane

No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.

If I pull that off, will you die?

Bane

It would be extremely painful...

You're a big guy.

Bane

...for you.

Was getting caught part of your plan?

Bane

Of course! Dr. Pavel refused our offer in favor of yours. We had to find out what he told you.

Dr. Pavel

Nothing! I said nothing!

Congratulations! You got yourself caught. Now what's the next step of your master plan?

Bane

Crashing this plane... WITH NO SURVIVORS!

What the hell is going on?

Bane

Our plan is proceeding as expected.

Daggett

Oh, really? Do I look like I'm running Wayne Enterprises right now? Your hit on the stock exchange, it didn't work, my friend, and now you have my construction crews going around the city at 24 hours a day. How exactly is that supposed to help my company absorb Wayne's?

Bane

Leave us.

Daggett

No. Stay here. I'm in charge.

Bane

Do you feel in charge? [Stryver exits]

Daggett

I've paid you a small fortune!

Bane

And this gives you power over me?

Daggett

What is this?

Bane

Your money and infrastructure have been important until now.

Daggett

What are you?

Bane

I'm Gotham's reckoning, here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on.

The Daggett

You're pure evil!

Bane

I'm necessary evil.

I had to find a way to keep them from killing me.

You made a serious mistake.

Bane

Ah, not as serious as yours, I fear.

Bane?

Bane

Let's not stand on ceremony here, Mr. Wayne.

Bane

Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you.