X-Men '97 Quotes

There is no love without sin. For love is best measured in what we forgive.

The only ones who can break our heart are those kept in it.

Every moment is a new and shocking valuation of all we have ever been.

Charles Xavier entrusted me with his dream, and it does not ask you to love or embrace my kind as your own, but merely to accept that this is a shared world with a common future, and that my kind, like yours, have the right to live in it. I am trying to be better. Please… Do not make me let you down.

Blood is blood. Family is a choice.

You call yourselves a team? A family? But a family that can’t save itself merely works together to die alone.

While the tide of our past can drag us under, it also carries us to others who are fighting their own current.

When your skin’s not in the game, apathy is your answer.

What are demons, but reflections of our fears and shame? Things we bury within us, hide from loved ones, even as they poison our hearts. Until we finally heal our adversary by embracing it.

We are not gods, Magnus.[Charles Xavier]Gods abandon those who believe in them. Mutants do not.[Magneto]

Want to know a secret? Coexistence is messy. Thus, my love for education, for my X-Men. Their heroism teaches a lesson we mustn’t forget. That the universe is very old, and all of us, very young. Born of ancient stardust, and all children of the atom.

Under all that fashionable sympathy, normal people know the more room we make for your kind, the less we leave for ours. So we might wear tolerance on our sleeves, but we know the naked truth. Tolerance is extinction.