Aresia quotes from Justice League

So the poison only effects men?

Aresia

Exactly. That's why it didn't hurt you two.

Star Sapphire

But why? What do you have to gain from all of this?

Aresia

[indignant] "What do I have to gain"?! Look around you: Man's World is filled with greed, deception and cruelty! But I'm going to change all that! Today, we women take control!

Star Sapphire

You can't be serious.

Aresia

[sneers] Can't I?

Aresia

[looking at a jet] It's perfect... Absolutely perfect!

Hippolyta

[appearing behind her] For what? More betrayal? More destruction?

Aresia

Your Highness! [bows] You of all people should understand why I'm doing this!

Hippolyta

No! You have violated sacred Amazonian law!

Aresia

[smirking] I'm sorry you see it that way. [Tsukuri knocks Hippolyta down] But I've come too far to turn back now.

Aresia

We'll be at the launch site at less than an hour.

Star Sapphire

And then?

Aresia

I shoot these cruise missiles into the upper atmosphere; After they explode, the winds will scatter my poison all over the world.

Star Sapphire

And I can say goodbye to some very unpleasant men I've known over the years.

Aresia

You can say good bye to all of them.

Aresia

You fools! Don't you see? We're not your enemy, it's the men! They must be destroyed.

Hippolyta

You're wrong Aresia. Without men, you wouldn't still be here. After your ship sank, you must have lost consciousness as you drifted on your makeshift raft. You would surely have drowned had the ship's captain not found you and pulled you to safety. Valiantly he struggled to keep you alive until he brought you to the shores of Themyscira. But the effort was too much for his heart. His final resting place is a simple, unmarked grave. He's the only man ever buried on Themyscira. So you see, for all your hatred of men, it turns out you owe your life to one.

Aresia

...Why didn't you ever tell me about this?

Hippolyta

I didn't think it was important. [ashamed] I didn't think he was important.

Hawkgirl

Maybe it's time to reconsider that.

Aresia

So everything you ever preached was a lie?

Hippolyta

Not everything.

Aresia

[beat] Still, the acts of one man cannot redeem the sins of his kind! [turns toward the control panel] They all must pay!

Hippolyta

NO! [Aresia knocks her out of the landing bay doors]

Aresia

[to Tsukuri] Shut the missile off!

It's too late! [grabs a jetpack]

Aresia

Wait! You can't leave!

[shrugs on the jetpack] I like you, but not that much! [jumps out the landing bay doors]