Watahiko: Please don't kill me, can't you save me? I don't want to die.
Ginko: Give it up.
Watahiko: Why must you kill us?
Ginko: Because you kill people's children to survive.
Watahiko: But that isn't our fault.
Ginko: It's not our fault either. However, we're stronger than you are, that's why you're going to die without leaving any spores.
Ginko: Give it up.
Watahiko: Why must you kill us?
Ginko: Because you kill people's children to survive.
Watahiko: But that isn't our fault.
Ginko: It's not our fault either. However, we're stronger than you are, that's why you're going to die without leaving any spores.
— Mushishi
"The only good goblins are the ones that never crawl out of their filthy holes."
— The titular character, Goblin Slayer
"These beings — this being — the Hive is wholly without redemption. When I came out here, I assumed all spacefaring life would be inquisitive and eager to talk. And now I find myself committed to nothing less than genocide. If I find the queen of the Hive, or the nerve center of the being, the single being the murder of which would exterminate the whole, would I do it? I ask myself: could I? And I must answer — yes. In a heartbeat."
—Don Jose Maria Cordillera, Tour of the Merrimack: The Myriad
"Either we spread and wipe out the Bugs, or they spread and wipe us out - because both races are tough and smart and want the same real estate."
—Juan "Johnny" Rico, Starship Troopers
"Like everything else we've observed in this world, there's no compromise between total victory and total defeat. You win or you die. [...] In spite of the Grik being the Ancient Enemy, the Lemurians don't know a lot about them. They just know that when the Grik come, the Grik attack. It's the way of things. They fight like maniacs and they don't take prisoners, so neither do the Lemurians. I'm not sure they even understand the concept of surrender."
—Lt. Sandra Tucker, Destroyermen
Dr. Elizabeth Weir: You do understand the Geneva Convention prohibits using prisoners for scientific experiments?
Col. John Sheppard: No offence, Doc, but had the Wraith attended the Geneva Convention, they would have tried to feed on everyone there.
Col. John Sheppard: No offence, Doc, but had the Wraith attended the Geneva Convention, they would have tried to feed on everyone there.
"It comes down to this: We are faced with an enemy that is determined to destroy us, and with whom we have no hope of negotiating peace. Unless that changes, we are justified in doing anything we can to survive."
— Captain Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation ("I, Borg")
"Come now Mr. Worf, you're a Klingon. Don't tell me you'd object to a little genocide in the name of self-defense?"
— Garak, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Broken Link")
At the dawn of the 20th century, for the first time, humanity banished the enemy from entire regions of the world. Humanity faltered many times in its efforts, but there were individuals who never gave up, who fought for the dream of a world where no child or loved one would ever fear the demon ever again. Viktor Zhdanov, who called for humanity to unite in a final push against the demon; the great tactician Karel Raška, who conceived of a strategy to annihilate the enemy; Donald Henderson, who led the efforts in those final days.
The enemy grew weaker. Millions became thousands, thousands became dozens. And then, when the enemy did strike, scores of humans came forth to defy it, protecting all those whom it might endanger.
The enemy’s last attack in the wild was on Ali Maow Maalin, in 1977. For months afterwards, dedicated humans swept the surrounding area, seeking out any last, desperate hiding place where the enemy might yet remain.
They found none.
On December 9th, 1979, humanity declared victory.
This one evil, the horror from beyond memory, the monster that took 500 million people from this world, was destroyed.
You are a member of the species that did that. Never forget what we are capable of when we band together and declare battle on what is broken in the world.
Web VideoThe enemy grew weaker. Millions became thousands, thousands became dozens. And then, when the enemy did strike, scores of humans came forth to defy it, protecting all those whom it might endanger.
The enemy’s last attack in the wild was on Ali Maow Maalin, in 1977. For months afterwards, dedicated humans swept the surrounding area, seeking out any last, desperate hiding place where the enemy might yet remain.
They found none.
On December 9th, 1979, humanity declared victory.
This one evil, the horror from beyond memory, the monster that took 500 million people from this world, was destroyed.
You are a member of the species that did that. Never forget what we are capable of when we band together and declare battle on what is broken in the world.
— "500 Million, But Not A Single One More"
by Jai on the Effective Altruism Forum
by Jai on the Effective Altruism ForumPriestess: Wait! Couldn't there be a good goblin? We don't know if they're evil yet!
Goblin Slayer: I wish I was innocent like you. But I'm not. I'm full of rage, and beans, SPIRIT, PRIDE, AND HEART, AND SOUL, AND RAGE, AND BEANS! SPICY BEANS! The only good goblin is a dead goblin! NOW LET'S MAKE THESE GOBLINS GOOOOD!
Apothecary Gary: Have mercy, I beg of you! I'm the last of my kind! Destroying me would wipe us off the planet. Forever.
Hop Pop: [beat] I can live with that. [war cry]
Apothecary Gary: Aaaghahagh-AAAAAAAARGHHHH!
Hop Pop: [beat] I can live with that. [war cry]
Apothecary Gary: Aaaghahagh-AAAAAAAARGHHHH!
Pvt. Higgins: Sir, have we tried to negotiate with the Bugs?
Lt. Razak: Bugs can smell human blood from a kilometer away. Through skin, through suits, through steel. They feel no pain, and have no emotions. Their only desire is to kill you. They are not life as we know it, is that clear? You can't negotiate with something that has no soul!
"The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death."
—Heinrich Himmler, Kharkow speech (April 24th, 1943)
"The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. It is the old battle of the Germanic against the Slavic people, of the defence of European culture against Muscovite-Asiatic inundation and of the repulse of Jewish Bolshevism. The objective of this battle must be the demolition of present-day Russia and must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron resolution to exterminate the enemy remorselessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of the contemporary Russian Bolshevik system are to be spared."
To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.
—Khmer Rouge slogan
"The German invaders want a war of extermination with the peoples of the U.S.S.R. Well, if the Germans want to have a war of extermination, they will get it." (Loud and prolonged applause.)
—From a speech by Joseph Stalin, November 1941.
