Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big and gettin’ the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you’ve got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you’ve got ‘em by the balls.
- Senator Roark, Sin City, Frank Miller
When I need to find something out, I just go out and find somebody that knows more than me, and I go and I ask them. Sometimes I ask pretty hard.
- Marv, Sin City, Frank Miller
God: You can’t look to a higher being to find a purpose in life. You won’t get an answer from any so-called “holy” book. And no priest, pastor, rabbi, imam, guru, cult leader, celebrity, athlete, or comic book writer has it.
Howard the Duck: What does that leave — sanitation workers?
God: It leaves those creatures who are willing and able to examine themselves and the world around them. In other words, ducko… you have to find your own little bit of grace.
- Howard the Duck #6 (MAX), Steve Gerber
And I wouldn’t have to put up with their relentless defamation of my character, either. Think about it! On the one hand they say I’m all-powerful and all-knowing — and on the other, that I’m so insecure I’m in need of constant praise to keep from venting my wrath! I ask you! Does that sound like the description of a just and merciful god — OR A SOCIOPATH?!
- God, Howard the Duck #6 (MAX), Steve Gerber
I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don’t feel bad.
- Marv, Sin City, Frank Miller
There’s a punk band down on earth now, called Bad Religion? The problem with that name is that it’s redundant. Religion is purely a mortal invention. I would never have come up with such a godawful idea. Religious leaders like to say that faith brings people together. As you may have noticed, that’s not exactly how it works. Faith brings small groups of people together, typically dominated by a self-anointed individual or hierarchical structure, at whose direction and for whose benefit they can stone, spear, cannonade or otherwise obliterate other small groups of people, whom faith has brought together under someone else’s control.
- God, Howard the Duck #6 (MAX), Steve Gerber
Aw, oui, monsieur! It is I — Pierre Dentrifis — in ze most formidable exoskeleton ever devised by man!! Vous thought I was a helpless cripple — ze way all you Americans think of Canada itself! Well, it is not vrai! I am — Le Beaver! And if you wish to see your jeune fille in une piece again — you must fight me to le mort — and don’t dally about it!
- Le Beaver (who else?), Howard the Duck #9, Steve Gerber
Fundamentalism? It’s how you get all the mysteries of the universe to fit on a bumper sticker.
- Howard the Duck, Howard the Duck #1 (MAX), Steve Gerber
Beverly Switzler: Wh–what do you do with all this stuff — the computer banks — the machinery?
Dr. Bong: Primarily, I intimidate superficial intellects like your own. You see, my dear — all of this hardware is ornamentation — utterly non-functional! The tapes whirr. The gears grind. The lights flash. And that’s all! But it looks impressive!
- Howard the Duck #17, Steve Gerber
I’ll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I’ll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I’ve done to him.
- Marv, Sin City, Frank Miller
Y-you’re a DUCK!
- many characters, Howard the Duck
Beverly Switzler: Waitaminit… we’re not supposed to be speaking, are we?
Howard the Duck (thinking): Why? Why should I care if I never see her again? What possible mutual attraction could rationally exist between a duck and — that? It defies every law of nature.
Beverly: Of course, I’m not inflexible. I might be persuaded… or charmed…
Howard (thinking): On the other hand, I’ve never felt constrained to follow convention!
Howard: What the heck. I guess it’s destiny, toots!
(they hug)
Howard (thinking): How could this be wrong — or insane — when it feels so good?
- Howard the Duck #6, Steve Gerber
I ride this bus all day — back and forth, back and forth — to protect my kidneys from you beasts! You and your tobacco — your deep-fried foods — your wanton women and low morals — your international kidney-poisoning conspiracy!
- the Kidney Lady, Howard the Duck #2, Steve Gerber
This is his moment of truth. In one motion, he drops the wrench, ducks, and lunges for the mallet. The hellcow, too, hurls herself at her target — but misses, her cold, unmilkable udder barely brushing Howard’s feathery crown.
- narration, Giant-Size Man-Thing #5, Steve Gerber
One thing this Thing ain’t interested in, is gettin’ mixed up with politics! Heck, the only clown I liked in last month’s election was Howard the Duck — an’ even he was a quack!
- Thing, Marvel Two in One #25
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