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"You've got a lot to learn. Here on Earth, we like to live together in peace and harmony, although that's not always been the case. We've had our fair share of enemies, trust me. But, I don't think that you're one of them. For some reason, I can just tell. You can stop fighting. You don't have to listen to what the others tell you to do."
Goku to Broly, Dragon Ball Super: Broly
"You want to talk ambition? Take a look around! Is this Hell your ambition!? Do you have to destroy everything just to get what you want!? Huh!?"
—Ryuko Matoi to Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
"No. You're just a murderer, Light Yagami. And this notebook is the deadliest weapon in the history of mankind. If you had been a normal person and had used this notebook once out of curiosity, you would have been surprised and scared of what had happened, regretted what you had done, and never used this notebook again. To speak of extremes, I can actually understand those who would use this notebook for their personal interests and kill a couple of people, and even think that they're normal. But you yielded to the power of the notebook and the Shinigami and have confused yourself with a god. In the end, you're nothing more than a crazy Serial Killer. That's all you are. Nothing more... and nothing less."
— Near to Light Yagami, Death Note
Comic Books
"Begone! Your place is in solitude. Your abode is a nest of serpents... in Hell..."
—Priest, Hellboy: The Island
Fan Works
"All I see before me is a misguided fool that is going to be cast down into Hell."
—Moka Akashiya to Hokuto Kaneshiro, Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness
Ganondorf: I do not take away men's freedom; they give it willingly, in exchange for the promise of living one more day in their cozy little prisons of their own design.
Zelda: No. Not all men. And that is why you will never win.
Zelda: No. Not all men. And that is why you will never win.
—The Legend of Zelda fancomic by Zac Gorman
Film — Animation
Sunset Shimmer: This isn't the way! I know you feel powerful right now, like you can have everything you want! I've been where you are, I've made the same mistake you're making! I put on a crown and, just like you, I was overwhelmed by the magic it contained! I thought it could get me everything I wanted!
Midnight Sparkle: Oh, you're wrong. Unlike you, I can have everything I want!
Sunset Shimmer: No, you can't. Even with all that magic and power, you'll still be alone! True magic comes from honesty! Loyalty! Laughter! Generosity! Kindness! I understand you, Twilight, and I want to show you the most important magic of all...
(transforms into Daydream Shimmer)
Sunset Shimmer: ...the Magic of Friendship!
Midnight Sparkle: Oh, you're wrong. Unlike you, I can have everything I want!
Sunset Shimmer: No, you can't. Even with all that magic and power, you'll still be alone! True magic comes from honesty! Loyalty! Laughter! Generosity! Kindness! I understand you, Twilight, and I want to show you the most important magic of all...
(transforms into Daydream Shimmer)
Sunset Shimmer: ...the Magic of Friendship!
Manchester Black: You think that's it? It's not over, you poncy twit. If you think I'll just go to jail and rot, you're living in a dream world!
Superman: Good. Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice are the reality we all share, I'll never stop fighting. Ever.
Superman: Good. Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice are the reality we all share, I'll never stop fighting. Ever.
Film — Live-Action
Brig-Gen. Francis X. Hummel: I thought I'd been in the service a long time... Name and rank, sailor.
Capt. John Patrick Mason: It's Army, actually.
Maj. Baxter: Answer the question. And address him as "General, sir."
Mason: Captain John Patrick Mason, General, sir, of Her Majesty's SAS. Retired, of course.
Hummel: You're a long way from home, Captain. How the hell are you involved in this?
Mason: Oh, I have a unique knowledge of this facility. I was formerly a guest here.
Hummel: Have they bothered to tell you who I am, why I'm doing this, or are they just using you like they do everybody else?
Mason: All I know is, you were big in Vietnam; I saw the highlights on television.
Hummel: Then you wouldn't have any fucking idea of what it means to lead some of the finest men on God's earth into battle and then see their memory betrayed by their own fucking government!
Mason: I don't quite see how you cherish the memory of the dead by killing another million, and, uh, this is not combat. It's an act of lunacy, General, sir. Personally, I think you're a fucking idiot.
(beat)
Hummel: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
Mason: "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious", according to Oscar Wilde.
(Hummel strikes Mason in the back of the neck)
Mason: Thank you for making my point.
— The Rock
"I bind you, Nancy, from doing harm; harm against other people, and harm against yourself."
—Sarah, The Craft
Ryback: What made you flip like this?
Strannix: I got tired of coming up with last-minute desperate solutions to impossible problems created by other fucking people.
Ryback: All of your ridiculous pitiful antics aren't gonna change a thing. You and me, we're puppets in the same sick game. We serve the same master, and he's a lunatic and he's ungrateful. But there's nothing we can do about it. You and me, we're the same.
Strannix: Oh, no. No, no, no. There's a difference, my man. You have faith. I don't.
[they fight]
Ryback: Keep the faith, Strannix.
Strannix: I got tired of coming up with last-minute desperate solutions to impossible problems created by other fucking people.
Ryback: All of your ridiculous pitiful antics aren't gonna change a thing. You and me, we're puppets in the same sick game. We serve the same master, and he's a lunatic and he's ungrateful. But there's nothing we can do about it. You and me, we're the same.
Strannix: Oh, no. No, no, no. There's a difference, my man. You have faith. I don't.
[they fight]
Ryback: Keep the faith, Strannix.
"You're missing the point. There is no throne. Alright? There is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes, and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it."
"Why must you persist in this reckless folly? What advantage can you gain from the illusion of power you can neither understand or successfully control? Don't you realize that moral forces greater than yourself will ensure that your attempt at usurpation of supreme power must fail?"
—Professor Morgan to Dr. Gulik, Supersonic Man
Literature
"You're still a slave, Angron. Enslaved by your past, blind to the future. Too hateful to learn. Too spiteful to prosper."
— Roboute Guilliman, Betrayer
One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things—trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that's small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say.
— Puddleglum, The Silver Chair
Well, Flambeau, you really look like a Flying Star, though that always means a Falling Star at last. You never did anything better, Flambeau. It was clever to come from Canada (with a Paris ticket, I suppose) just a week after Mrs Adams died, when no one was in a mood to ask questions. It was cleverer to have marked down the Flying Stars and the day of Fischer's coming. But there's no cleverness, but mere genius, in what followed. Stealing the stones was nothing to you, I suppose. You could have done it by sleight of hand in a hundred other ways besides that pretense of putting a paper donkey's tail to Fischer's coat. But in the rest you eclipsed yourself [...] Oh, you will never do anything better. And now, by the way, you might give me back those diamonds. Yes, I want you to give them back, Flambeau, and I want you to give up this life. There is still youth and honour and humour in you; don't fancy they will last in that trade. Men may keep a level sort of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. The kind man drinks and turns cruel; the frank man kills and lies about it. Many a man I've known started like you to be an honest outlaw, a merry robber of the rich, and ended stamped with slime [...] I know the woods look very free behind you, Flambeau; I know that in a flash you could melt into them like a monkey. But some day you will be an old grey monkey, Flambeau. You will sit up in your tree forest cold at heart and close to death, and the tree-tops will be very bare. Your downward steps have begun. You used to boast of doing nothing mean, but you are doing something mean tonight. You are leaving suspicion on an honest boy with a good deal against him already; you are separating him from the woman he loves and who loves him. But you will do meaner things than that before you die.
— Father Brown, "The Flying Stars"
Video Games
"Really unbelievable. In the end, you would rather trust me and not that stupid wolf who has been helping you all the way. You finally fell into the palm of my hand. Regarding what I want to do, what deviant plan might I have? I just want to turn you into a soft and white and slippery latex beast, that is all. After all, don't forget I'm the big villain. This time, he won't come to your rescue again. You have broken his heart. I have nothing more to say to idiots like you. Oh you are such a letdown. But at the end of the day, still, a big thank you for helping me fix the main generator. It has been bothering me for so long. This is a good place to be halted, isn't it? Goodbye forever, foolish human."
"You have made a habit in using others for your own ends. Now, the Sierra Madre is your reward. Whether you used blackmail or force, or even played to Vera's greed, it will not help down here in the Vault. Greed has led you here. I hope it leaves you as empty as you left me."
— Frederick Sinclair, Fallout: New Vegas
"You shut your mouth, Medusa! Lady Palutena is nothing like you! Who turns people to stone and poisons the rivers? Who reduces cities to rubble? And who is leading the Underworld destruction of the land and heavens?"
—Pit, Kid Icarus: Uprising
"All for some foolish 'excitement', like a criminal reveling in the chaos he creates!"
— Naoto Shirogane to the killer, Persona 4
"i know your type. you're...uh...very determined, aren't you? you'll never give up, even if there's, uh...absolutely NO benefit to persevering whatsoever."
— Sans, Undertale, to the player on a Genocide run
Western Animation
Arlo: BOG LADYYYYYY?! You're right! I am a part of you! Just like the swamp! I might not live here anymore, but I can never really leave! 'Cause where I'm from... will always be a part of where I'm going. So, you can let us go now?
All others: Eh?
Bog Lady: Hmm... no. I'm gonna eat you!
Arlo: I THOUGHT FOR SURE THAT WILL WORK!
All others: Eh?
Bog Lady: Hmm... no. I'm gonna eat you!
Arlo: I THOUGHT FOR SURE THAT WILL WORK!
— I ♡ Arlo
"I'll tell you what we've learned, Discord! We've learned that friendship isn't always easy, but there's no doubt it's worth fighting for!"
— Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
