Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

Christopher Reeve: Superman, Clark Kent

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• Superman : And there will be peace. There will be peace when the people of the world, want it so badly, that their governments will have no choice but to give it to them. I just wish you could all see the Earth the way that I see it. Because when you really look at it, it's just one world.

• Superman : Madam Chairman, I don't represent any one particular country, but I'd like to address the delegates.

  U.N. Secretary General : Well... in that case, you will need a sponsor.

  [all delegates raise their hands] 

  U.N. Secretary General : I believe that will do. Please.

• [last lines] 

  Lex Luthor : [Superman has dropped Luthor off at prison and they are discussing nuclear weapons]  Is the world gonna be vaporized?

  Superman : No. It's the same as it's always been, Luthor. On the brink. With good fighting evil. See you in twenty.

  [Superman flies off] 

• Superman : You'd risk world wide nuclear war for your own personal financial gain.

  Lex Luthor : Nobody wants war. I just want to keep the threat alive.

• Superman : I know I'm forbidden to interfere... and yet the Earth is threatened by the same fate as Krypton's.

  1st Elder : The Earth is too primitive. You can flee to new worlds, where war is long forgotten.

  2nd Elder : If you teach the Earth to put its fate in any one man, even yourself, you're teaching them to be betrayed.

  1st Elder : Betrayed! Betrayed! Betrayed! Betrayed!

• [Superman and Nuclear Man confront each other in downtown Metropolis] 

  Nuclear Man : Where is the woman?

  Superman : Give it up, you'll never find her.

  Nuclear Man : If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!

  [Nuclear Man begins to cause mass destruction] 

  Superman : Stop! Don't do it, the people!

• Lex Luthor : [introduces Nuclear Man to Superman]  Look closely at the cell structure. You see anything familiar?

  Superman : You've broken all the laws of man, Luthor. Now it looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too. I can only assume you must have hidden a device of some kind on one of the missiles I hurled into the sun.

  Lex Luthor : You know, Mr. Muscle, I'm really gonna miss these little chats we had together. You're the only one that could keep up with me.

• Superman : Uh... no pain, no gain?

• Superman : [returns Cosmonaut to capsule, speaks in Russian]  You'll be safer singing in here.