The bat and the cat. It’s got a nice ring.
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol… as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.
The idea was to be a symbol. Batman could be anybody. That was the point.
The building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.
Who was he?[Eric Finch]He was Edmond Dantes, and he was my father and my mother, my brother, my friend. He was you and me. He was all of us.[Evey Hammond]
Do you know what this symbol stands for?
