What are you seeking?

Bruce Wayne: You're vigilantes.
Henri Ducard: No, no, no. A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely.
Bruce Wayne: Which is?
Henri Ducard: A legend, Mr. Wayne.




Henri Ducard: What are you seeking?
Bruce Wayne: I seek the means to fight injustice, to turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.




Henri Ducard: You traveled the world... Now you must journey inwards... to what you really fear... it's inside you... there is no turning back. Your parents' death was not your fault. Your training is nothing. The will is everything. If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely. Are you ready to begin?




Henri Ducard: You must become more than just a man in the mind of your opponent.




Henri Ducard: Always mind your surroundings.




Henri Ducard: Your anger gives you great power. But if you let it, it will destroy you. As it almost did me.
Bruce Wayne: What stopped it?
Henri Ducard: Vengeance.





Bruce Wayne: You're gonna destroy millions of lives.
Ra's al Ghul: Only a cynical man would call what these people have "lives," Wayne. Crime, despair... this is not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.




Henri Ducard: But a criminal is not complicated. What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power. You fear your anger, the drive to do great or terrible things.




Henri Ducard: You have learned to bury your guilt with anger. I will teach you to confront it, and to face the truth. You know how to fight six men. We can teach you how to engage six hundred. You know how to disappear. We can teach you to become truly invisible.
Bruce Wayne: Invisible?
[Ducard shouts in a different language and 2 people dressed in black flip down from the ceiling]




Henri Ducard: Men fear most what they cannot see.




Henri Ducard: [to Bruce] Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.




Henri Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.
Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.




Henri Ducard: Theatricality and deception are powerful agents.




Henri Ducard: To conquer fear, you must become fear.




Henri Ducard: You've traveled the world to understand the criminal mind and conquer your fears.




Ra's al Ghul: You were my greatest student. It should be you standing by my side, saving the world.




Bruce Wayne: I'll be standing where I belong. Between you and the people of Gotham.
Ra's al Ghul: No one can save Gotham.