Aquila: "I was an arena fighter for eight years, and I've been spilling men's innards for several lifetimes longer than that." 2000 AD prog 1973.
Aquila: "There's a trick to making a beast your servant, just as there is to making a man a slave. Whip them and beat them for long enough, deny them any hope or free will, and they will always do what you require of them..." 2000 AD prog 1974.
Aquila: "How can I be empty... ...When I have enough rage in me to burn down the gods themselves?" 2000 AD prog 1975.
Tortrix: "No hint of a soul. Just coldness and rage, and the merest taste of desert sands and the Nile." 2000 AD prog 1976.
Narrator: "He thought he had known pain before — the lash of the slavedriver's whip. The slow death on the cross. The countless wounds he'd suffered in battle. Yes, he thought he knew everything there was to know here — he was wrong." 2000 AD prog 1977.
Aquila: "Who am I? The one who comes to punish the wicked for their sins." 2000 AD prog 2011 (published January 2017).