— You're a cruel man, Jack Sparrow.
— Cruel is a matter of perspective.
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: The boys say I'm ugly. Mama was the third runner-up in the Miss South Carolina pageant...
Constantine Jefferson: Now you quit feeling sorry for yourself. Now that's ugly. Ugly is something that grows up from inside you. It's mean and hurtful, like them boys. Now you not one of them, is you?
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
The slaves you freed, brutality is all they've ever known. If you want them to know something else, you'll have to show it to them.
— I need to get going, find everyone who’s escaped before they get hurt.
— Before they could get hurt?
— Yes, Mr. Kowalski. They’re currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet. Humans.