J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)/Quotes

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Mars once had crime... centuries ago! Until the Great Evolution, we had wicked men who preyed on the good. But our enlightened science made all crime obsolete!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

We were so close! After untold hundreds of centuries, we were about to find maturity... Outgrow senseless strife... Become all we might have been! And one individual, sick with the need for violence, deprived us of our destiny! And so my world ends!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

Once I would have sold my soul to return home! Now, I see the truth-- The truth I should have seen years ago! The Mars I loved is gone! It is a world of lost causes and dead dreams! Evil triumphed over good there! But here, on Earth, the eternal struggle continues! Here one such as I-- And ones such as yourselves-- can still tip the balance the right way! I love my adopted world! It needs-- a Manhunter from Mars!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

Perhaps if we had "freaked" when there was a fight, my young friend, Mars might still be a living planet instead of a barren wasteland.

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

Green Arrow! You're firing an incendiary shaft at me! No...!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

My friends... I have an urgent request-- I... I must ask you to go on an assignment that may well end with your deaths!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

Yes, with you and Batman helping, we Martians have all learned a powerful lesson! Revenge... violence... aggression... All become the enemies of whoever uses them!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

Earth people possess the same super-powers on Mars as I possess on Earth!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

I--I'm back home--on Mars!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

No, not me Superman... It's the entire universe that will have to pay the price of your failure! I warned you that you were dealing with forces beyond your comprehension... but you were too overconfident... too egotistical... to listen!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)

The only Earth people who know where we are, or who are capable of traveling to this world are my former colleagues in the Justice League! While I cannot understand why they would do such a thing, I can think of no other possibility. One of them is the killer!

--J'onn J'onzz (Earth-One)