"People don't want freedom. They want rules, boundaries, protections. From invaders and from themselves. People need a leader who can both provide the constraints and the support to keep chaos at bay. And you give them that, and they'll follow."
— Jonathan Irons, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
"When you have a family, you start to realize what really matters. Having a safe and secure environment for your children to grow up in... That really is a precious thing. That was why the PAP managed to win every seat in every election for 16 years! From 1965 to 1981!"
"Well, yes, I voted for them too. But I don't think that it invalidates the work Charlie and I did together. It was simply a matter of recognising the best men for the job. You can always talk about how they could have done this or that better, or less harshly, perhaps... But you also have to see things from a practical point of view."
"Well, yes, I voted for them too. But I don't think that it invalidates the work Charlie and I did together. It was simply a matter of recognising the best men for the job. You can always talk about how they could have done this or that better, or less harshly, perhaps... But you also have to see things from a practical point of view."
— Bertrand Wong, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
"WHY ARE THERE SO MANY COPS IN A RAILYARD!? This has gotta be a fascist state. How's that go, Mussolini made the trains run on time? [...] Yeah, I guess the trains would run on time if there was twenty fucking cops waiting to blow your head off!"
Batman: You grabbed power!
Lord Batman: And with that power, we've made a world where no eight-year-old boy will ever lose his parents because of some punk with a gun!
[Dramatic Pause]
Batman: ... You win.
Lord Batman: And with that power, we've made a world where no eight-year-old boy will ever lose his parents because of some punk with a gun!
[Dramatic Pause]
Batman: ... You win.
And so Night Haunter became the first monarch of Nostramo Quintus, absorbing accumulated knowledge with diligence almost akin to greed. Night Haunter ruled with temperance and reason unheard of until word came to him that some injustice had been done, whereupon he would hunt the offender through the empty streets until exhaustion forced his quarry to collapse. He would then proceed to mutilate his prey, although not beyond recognition. This unpredictable pattern of benevolent wisdom and hideous vengeance ushered the shocked populace into new realms of efficiency and honesty. Exports of adamantium to their neighbouring worlds tripled. The society existed in a terrible harmony of shared wealth and shared fear. None dared have more than his neighbour and under the shadow of Night Haunter's rule, the city grew well-lit and prosperous. And as Nostramo Quintus led, the rest of the planet followed, anxious to keep the Night Haunter from their doors.
"Do you feel you failed your country? Let me tell you what I see. I see another man who has put on a costume and decided to act for us rather than with us. Another man who believes he has more right to decide our future than we do. Another man who has made things catastrophically worse. And another man of means who has completely failed to protect us. Superman had noble intentions too. He was also trying to protect us. The only difference between you and Superman that I can see, Mr. Wayne, was that Superman was a far more competent dictator."
— Unnamed Senator, Injustice 2
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace! Shut up!
Attendee: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace! Shut up!
Courier: In the meantime, you'd rule Vegas as some kind of dictator?
House: I prefer the term "autocrat". I would rule as a chief executive. I would not answer to a board of directors or any other entity. Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
House: I prefer the term "autocrat". I would rule as a chief executive. I would not answer to a board of directors or any other entity. Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
"There are two things that changed when Great Leader took power: first, water got a lot cheaper. Second, the incidence of murders, aggravated assaults, sexual violence, and starvation all dropped by about a million percent. The Loyalists knew to salute Great Leader when his picture passed by in a parade, sure - but it's really that reminder of hydration and nutrition and not suddenly dying that they're loyal to. And that's exactly what they're fighting to keep."
— Marvin Beck, Brigador
"Look, sometimes the powers that be are incompetent or malicious, but sometimes, they're not trying to hold people back so much as hold people back... from licking a blender set to 'puree'."
— Nash, What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?, "Rebel, Rebel"
"Speer's National Socialist praxis is marked by a watering down of many of Hitler's more unsavory policies. The meticulous racial quantification, the futile quest for economic autarky, the endless empowerment of the military, even the blind worship of Hitler; Speer considers none of these tenets to be sacred and plans to do away with all of them. These inevitably earn him derision from his more devout rivals: he's a revisionist, he's a factionalist, he wants to replace Nazism with weak and effeminate Italian fascism. Some have even accused him of being a crypto-democrat who wants to destroy Nazism entirely.
What they fail to realize is that Speer isn't reforming Nazism to destroy it, but to save it. By making ideological concessions in the name of pragmatism, Speer is able to amputate the gangrenous limb and keep the rest of the body alive. By limiting rampant militarism, he can diminish the risk of Caesarism in the general staff. And by allowing criticism of Hitler, he can preserve a cult of personality while maintaining the appearance of openness.
If everything goes according to plan, Speer can transform National Socialism from a bloated mess of self-destructive contradictions into a workable ideology while preserving its core. There will still be a one-party state, there will still be racial purity, and most importantly, there will still be one all-powerful Führer."
What they fail to realize is that Speer isn't reforming Nazism to destroy it, but to save it. By making ideological concessions in the name of pragmatism, Speer is able to amputate the gangrenous limb and keep the rest of the body alive. By limiting rampant militarism, he can diminish the risk of Caesarism in the general staff. And by allowing criticism of Hitler, he can preserve a cult of personality while maintaining the appearance of openness.
If everything goes according to plan, Speer can transform National Socialism from a bloated mess of self-destructive contradictions into a workable ideology while preserving its core. There will still be a one-party state, there will still be racial purity, and most importantly, there will still be one all-powerful Führer."
— Description of the Reformed National Socialism ideology, The New Order: Last Days of Europe
