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Quotes by Charles Xavier (Earth-616)
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On behalf of the X-Men, Hank, I'd like to wish you all possible luck in your new position.
I have a friend. This fight is not his, but he did send out a magnetic pulse to make sure there were no systems operating that you could bring to life.
Oppression is no excuse for vengeance -- for murder. I wonder... does the death of innocent people -- cut down on the streets as they flee -- free you? I think not.
Those feelings are what mark Bishop as a great X-Man. They are his true power. His commitment to his teammates...to what the X-Men represent -- his spirit embodies what my dream is all about. He has chosen his heart over his past. He is, heart and soul, one us us. And few have paid a greater price.
My name is Charles Xavier. I am a mutant. And once upon a time I had a dream...of a world where all Earth's children, both mutant and baseline human, might live together in peace. This isn't it. This is today's reality.
"Violence and destruction always seem to come so easily to even the best among us. But together, we found a better way."
"There is a moment when I pray it's the lightning that wakes me. But from the start I know that isn't true."
"Welcome to the Republic of Genosha. This is all it takes, really. Two hands clasped in fellowship, pledging to build something better."
I will take him with me, Mr. Grimm. Given time -- and luck -- I believe I can help him cure the madness and teach him to cope with his power. Yes... given time...
You, my friend, are a mutant -- and I have a need of mutants -- desperate need!
You cannot HAVE children. You never could. Now stop abusing your mutant powers and put it back. You're only hurting yourself. ... Wanda, put the world back NOW!
Run! Get out of here, sound the alarm!
I'm a teacher, Jack -- a healer -- I don't kill.
I... am very pleased to meet you, David.
Imagine the responsibility of all that destructive potential. The power to crack the firmament and extinguish suns... Imagine that in the wrong hands.
She died protecting the lives of others. She laid down her life for the dream.
Ghost stories, Jean? Sixteen million mutants died here on one day... is it any wonder there are ghost stories?
I've had years to reflect, to consider how different he is from the rest of his kind. Somehow he found a way to overcome his nature and live on his own terms.
No, Scott -- Jean -- thank you... I'm fine... for now...
You've usurped... my place and powers... long enough!
My back is shattered, a parting gift from the Shadow King... it appears if I am ever to achieve my dream... I will need all of you... to walk me there.
Let us all hope your confidence in me is well founded. Because, my students, I am proud to formally introduce you to Bishop -- the newest X-Man!
If you will not take responsibility for yourself, Magneto... then God help me I will!
Even so, X-Men... he managed to achieve a remarkably accurate forgery of Wolverine. Both physically and psychologically, for quite some time. The implications are staggering, to say the least.
First, the five of you are going to steal a spaceship... and then we're going to put ourselves in the path of Vulcan's fury... and hope we can bring him back to his humanity before it's too late.
The Skrull aren't without honor. However twisted it may be
I've been doing this a lot longer than you have, Scott. And, with all due respect, I've been dealing with Magneto since before you were born. I will not let him waltz in here and shatter what is left of mutantkind.
You're a Headmaster now, Professor Logan. Best accept the fact that you will never again seem even remotely "cool" to any of your students. And you haven't even started losing your hair yet. Which you will, by the way.
Sometimes it seems that in mutant heaven, there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.
We think you're ready to join the X-Men.
This contact was a disaster! He way completely distruct me and my X-Men now. He's more dangerous than ever, to himself and everyone else around him. For his own sake - for the sake of the world - we must find him again!
I'm alerting everyone, including those in my underground, to be on the lookout for this boy. He's extremely powerful, barely in control and very, very dangerous.
Exodus missed, that's all... His strategy was to show me my own folly, my own weakness. He made me relive every mistake that Charles Xavier had ever made. Every scrap of guilt that could be laid at his door. But the man who made those mistakes is dead. His failings and his failures died with him. I have the chance -- the possibility -- to be someone better.
"This Is My Body. My Mind. GET OUT!"
Jean told me once -- that death and birth can sometimes be the same thing. That when your life stops, new possibilities open up. ... I'm glad I got to see you again, Scott -- and that I leave the X-Men in such good hands. Goodbye.
You're right, Cain. Redemption isn't always possible. But understanding is. I understand you better now, and I know you've chosen the path you walk. For you own sake -- don't stray onto mine.
This is no shelter. This is a dollhouse you built for my son to play in. ... As soon as anyone takes a close look at your Fortress X, the cracks start to show.
I was wrong. Not about me. About you. You've done what I could never do: You've united mutantkind and provided us a safe haven and a common purpose. You made it happen. Except it's suddenly not so safe. We've only just come into being, yet it may all be gone by this time tomorrow. Unless you make your first big decision as our leader a good one.
Many scenarios are available; such as engaging the Brood or attempting to evade a Sentinel patrol.
I just let it know that despite appearances, no species rules the Earth and that there's room for all of us.
This is only the first step on a long and difficult journey.
It was a psionic "presence", for lack of a better word -- falling to Earth, entering our atmosphere. Unequivocaly, more powerful than any I've ever felt before...
Class is now in session! Tardiness will be punished!
I will... miss you, Scott.
My Cerebro machine! The danger is even greater than I feared!
The greatest power on Earth is the magnificent power we all of us possess... the power of the human brain!
The X-Men are scarcely children any more! They've each proved themselves a hundred times in deadly combat! It's time they looked like individuals – not products of an assembly line!
I see you haven't read the novel, Bobby -- which I assigned last spring! In it, Victor Frankenstein pursued his grotesque creation into the Arctic regions! And there -- near the top of the world -- he died!
You've proven you can think and act for yourselves!! Your training period is over!! Congratulations, my X-Men!!
Each microsecond you delay the invasion will be invaluable! I need not stress the importance of your mission! There is nothing left to say but goodbye...and Godspeed! Now go -- quickly!
I have decided that you, the X-Man known as Cyclops, shall be group leader until I return!
We have awesome powers, my X-Men. It is our birthright... And, perhaps, our burden. But, as Valerie Said, with that power comes responsibility -- and also accountability. I owe it to the Fantastic Four...the Avengers... To everyone who was injured by Onslaught to go now. It is the right thing to do. It is the best thing to do.
I've spent enough time running -- both literally and figuratively. It's high time I went back home.
I've had years to reflect, to consider how different he is from the rest of his kind. Somehow he found a way to overcome his nature and live on his own terms. He's not like Dracula, Jubilee, not like Xarus. And you don't have to be either.
With Hannah Connover lies the possibility of understanding the Brood better. Perhaps of even changing them. She is literally an embodiment of hope. In that, she represents part of my dream -- part of the very reason I formed you, my X-Men.
Conversations with Charles Xavier (Earth-616)
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The Good Shepherd is my call-sign. If you're trapped behind enemy lines, if you are lost... I would get the call to bring you home.
Uncanny X-Men
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- Professor X: Wolverine, call me 'Professor', 'Professor X', 'Professor Xavier'. or even, if you must, 'Charles'. But not 'Charley'. Is that understood?
- Wolverine: Sure, Chuck.
- From Uncanny X-Men #139
X-Men vol. 2
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Can't you see? After all these years, still do you not understand? When all is said and done, your dream, Magneto, cannot endure, because it will forever be tainted by the blood of those you've sacrificed along the way! And poisoned as well by the rage that drives you to take those lives. Under the pretense that it was somehow necessary.
- --(to Magneto) X-Men vol. 2 #3
X-Men Legacy
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I think we canceled each other out. For a long time. And then... finally... we became irrelevant. The future walked around us.
- -- Charles Xavier. When asked who won the argument between Magneto and Xavier. X-Men Legacy #209
X-Men First Class
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- Iceman: We could completely crush evil, period!
- Professor X: Exactly. Which is more power than any should have.
- From X-Men First Class #6
- "If I could only have chosen one of you to face this, I still would have chosen you."
- -- Professor X to Cyclops in X-Men First Class #10.