The Best Graves Quotes

[Credence has just revealed that he is the Obscurous's host by making the walls crumble, much to the shock of Graves]
Percival: Credence. I owe you an apology.
Credence: I trusted you. I thought you were my friend. I thought you were different.
Percival: You can control it. Credence.
Credence: [darkly] I don't think I want to, Mr. Graves.
[With an inhuman growl, Credence transforms into the Obscurous and wrecks havoc around New York City]

Percival: You're an interesting man, Mr. Scamander.
Porpentina: Mr. Graves...
Percival: [silences her with a finger] You were thrown out of Hogwarts for endangering human life...
Newt: That was an accident.
Percival: ...with a beast. Yet one of your teachers argued strongly against your expulsion. Now... what makes Albus Dumbledore... so fond of you?

Seraphina: He was responsible for the death of a No-Maj. He risked the exposure of our community. He has broken one of our most sacred laws...
Percival: A law that has us scuttling like rats in the gutter! A law that demands we conceal our true nature! A law that directs those under its dominion to cower in fear lest we risk discovery! I ask you, Madam President, I ask all of you... Who does this law protect? Us? Or them?
[smiles bitterly]
Percival: I refuse to bow down any longer.

Percival: So setting a pack of dangerous creatures loose here was just another accident, is that right?
Newt: Why would I do it deliberately?
Percival: To expose wizardkind. To provoke war between the magical and non-magical worlds.
Newt: [scoffs] Mass slaughter for the greater good, you mean?
Percival: Yes, quite.
Newt: I'm not one of Grindelwald's fanatics, Mr Graves.