Nikolai: Sucking the life out of them's a pretty extreme policy for dealing with unemployment.
Camilla: It keeps them off the streets.
Camilla: It keeps them off the streets.
— Nikolai Dante, "The Cadre Infernale"
Film
"Grab your guns, boys! Grab your fucking guns! We got homeless to kill, so let's go make some dead bodies!"
— The Chief of Police, Hobo with a Shotgun
The underprivileged are beating our goddamned brains out. You know what I say? Stick them in concentration camps, that's what I say.
—Sam Kreutzer, Death Wish
Sir Billiam III: Oh, you see, during my– in my travels, I found this mansion and it's actually a breeding ground for this mysterious Egg. And so I– so I renovated the mansion, I built around it, and in my spare time, I feed poor people to the Egg. The Egg demands poor people... as nourishment.
[...]
Sir Billiam III: It's okay, Karl, you're a Minecraft YouTuber, alright? The Egg only eats poor people!
Karl: Oh! [turns around to run for the door]
Sir Billiam III: I didn't tell you this, but all the guys I invited to this party were actually only upper middle class!
[...]
Sir Billiam III: It's okay, Karl, you're a Minecraft YouTuber, alright? The Egg only eats poor people!
Karl: Oh! [turns around to run for the door]
Sir Billiam III: I didn't tell you this, but all the guys I invited to this party were actually only upper middle class!
— Tales From the SMP, "The Masquerade"
Ebenezer Scrooge: I help to support the establishments I have mentioned. They cost enough, and those who are badly off must go there.
1st Benefactor: Many can't go there—!
2nd Benefactor: And some would rather die.
Scrooge: If they would rather die, they'd better do it and decrease the surplus population.
1st Benefactor: Many can't go there—!
2nd Benefactor: And some would rather die.
Scrooge: If they would rather die, they'd better do it and decrease the surplus population.
— A Christmas Carol (1951)
Oscar: Sir, if I may offer my humble opinion. Producing just one of these golden statues has placed a heavy burden upon the residents of your domain. I've heard it's not uncommon for them to eat the flesh of passing travelers or their own relatives to stave off starvation. If we're to try and create four more statues while they're in that state then-
Duke Oslo El Gustav: Some people would perish. Is that your concern?
Oscar: Well, yes sir.
Duke Oslo El Gustav: That would be acceptable. Knights prove their loyalty to his Majesty by taking up arms on his behalf. Similarly, among the upper class the Nobles prove their loyalty through proper governance of the lands they oversee. So then you may ask, how is it possible for lowborn peasants to prove their loyalty? There can be only one answer: only through dying for his Majesty! Hopefully this is clear to you now, Oscar.
Duke Oslo El Gustav: Some people would perish. Is that your concern?
Oscar: Well, yes sir.
Duke Oslo El Gustav: That would be acceptable. Knights prove their loyalty to his Majesty by taking up arms on his behalf. Similarly, among the upper class the Nobles prove their loyalty through proper governance of the lands they oversee. So then you may ask, how is it possible for lowborn peasants to prove their loyalty? There can be only one answer: only through dying for his Majesty! Hopefully this is clear to you now, Oscar.
My friends, I think we can agree that our problem — our collective problem — is intensifying around the world. You only need to look outside these very walls for the evidence. The breeding rate has not decreased, in spite of severe austerity measures. Or perhaps because of them. After all, what else is left for these people to do?
As the masses grow, so too does the threat. Tonight, we sit in privilege, as did the Qin dynasty, the French Court, the Russian czars. Unassailable. Or so they thought. Until — one after the other — they awoke to the sounds of the rabble at their gates.
Tonight, the people who contribute to the progress of the world must find the strength to move against those who add nothing. If we do not act soon, we may not have time to act at all. Those of us in this room must decide — and the moment has come. We have the method. Do we have the nerve?
As the masses grow, so too does the threat. Tonight, we sit in privilege, as did the Qin dynasty, the French Court, the Russian czars. Unassailable. Or so they thought. Until — one after the other — they awoke to the sounds of the rabble at their gates.
Tonight, the people who contribute to the progress of the world must find the strength to move against those who add nothing. If we do not act soon, we may not have time to act at all. Those of us in this room must decide — and the moment has come. We have the method. Do we have the nerve?
World President Gismonde, The Shadow (Patterson novel)
"Uh... you know, Diane, I had a notion the other day... I-I-I was thinking someone should get a group together, uh, with guns to sweep out those ghettos!"
Doctor: But what of the lesser intellects? Or will they be left to rot?
Davros: You should know me better than that, Doctor. I never waste a valuable commodity. The humanoid form makes an excellent concentrated protein. This part of the galaxy is developing quickly. Famine was one of its major problems.
Davros: You should know me better than that, Doctor. I never waste a valuable commodity. The humanoid form makes an excellent concentrated protein. This part of the galaxy is developing quickly. Famine was one of its major problems.
Chris Brynner: But don't worry, your friends are fine. That's the whole point of the Sanctuary. To give people in trouble food and a place to stay.
Dax: If that's all it's for, then why is there a wall around it?
Dax: If that's all it's for, then why is there a wall around it?
"Well, I think they should attack the lower classes, er, first with bombs, and rockets destroying their homes, and then when they run helpless into the streets, er, mowing them down with machine guns. Er, and then of course releasing the vultures. I know these views aren't popular, but I have never courted popularity."
— Stockbroker, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Smethwick: No pleeeaase, let me go! I'm sorry for whatever I've done. I'm sorry. What did I do? Tell me! What did I do?
The Headmaster: You, Smethwick, were born into the wrong class.
— The Ritual Of The Bones, by John Connolly
"No-one misses the poor. Round up some orphans and the world will thank you for it. Disappear a whore and a gentleman applauds you. Cull a beggar and a lady walks safely again."
— Oswald Mandus, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
My Poverty Eradication Plan was meant to bring prosperity to the City, to rid us of those scoundrels who waste their days in filth and drink, without homes or occupations other than to beg for the coin for which the rest of us toil. And it was a simple plan – bring the disease bearing rats from the Pandyssian Continent, and let them take care of the poor for us.
— Hiram Burrows, Dishonored
We know of your PROCOMMUNIST attitude...We know by experience that all labor organizations and cooperatives always fall into the power of Communist Leaders infiltrated into them. We have the organization and the force to prevent this from happening again... There are THIRTY THOUSAND CLANDESTINE PEASANT GRAVES TO BEAR WITNESS....
— Mano Blanca
, in a mimeographed letter sent to Guatemala City cooperatives
, in a mimeographed letter sent to Guatemala City cooperativesIt's our program, you understand, to exterminate one-third of the male population of Spain. That will purge the country and we will be rid of the proletariat. It's sound economically too. Never have any more unemployment in Spain, you understand.
—Count Gonzalo de Aguilera to Associated Press journalist Charles Foltz (1939)
A chap who squats down on his knees to clean your boots at a café or in the street is bound to be a Communist, so why not shoot him right away and be done with it? No need for a trial - his guilt is self-evident in his profession.
—Count Gonzalo de Aguilera to British volunteer Peter Kamp
Had we no sewers in Madrid, Barcelona, and Bilbao, all these Red leaders would have died in their infancy instead of exciting the rabble and causing good Spanish blood to flow. When the war is over, we should destroy the sewers. The perfect birth control for Spain is the birth control God intended us to have. Sewers are a luxury to be reserved for those who deserve them, the leaders of Spain, not the slave stock.
—Count Gonzalo de Aguilera to Associated Press journalist Charles Foltz (1939)
