History Quotes / BeingEvilSucks

-->-- '''Eric Draven''', ''Film/TheCrow''

->''"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in [[MorallyBankruptBanker banking]], but in [[SleazyPolitician government]], [[SuckySchool education]], [[HidingBehindReligion religion]], [[FastFoodNation food]], even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, [[CheatersNeverProsper fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked.]] Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. [[AesopAmnesia When the hell did we forget all that?]] I thought we were better than this, I really did."''

-->-- ''Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money'', on why the crueler of the bill collecting agencies have such high employee turnover

->''"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in [[CorruptCorporateExecutive banking]], but in [[SleazyPolitician government]], [[SuckySchool education]], [[HidingBehindReligion religion]], [[FastFoodNation food]], even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, [[CheatersNeverProsper fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked.]] Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. [[AesopAmnesia When the hell did we forget all that?]] I thought we were better than this, I really did."''

'''Luke''': [[TheReasonYouSuck No! The powers of control and destruction weren't the only things I found in the dark side, Emperor... I also found great isolation and sadness... I found fear. These are the feelings my father felt... the feelings even you feel, in your moments of darkest triumph.]]

->''"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in [[CorruptCorporateExecutive banking]], but in [[SleazyPolitician government]], [[SuckySchool education]], [[HidingBehindReligion religion]], [[FastFoodNation food]], even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. [[AesopAmnesia When the hell did we forget all that?]] I thought we were better than this, I really did."''

-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022 The Bad Guys]]''

->'''The Courier''': How about I go find dear Daniel and shake the information out of him?
->'''Joshua Graham''': There are many reasons why that would be a bad idea. I will illuminate [[RuleOfThree three]]. First, do not believe that because Daniel is a missionary that he is [[BewareTheNiceOnes incapable of, or unwilling to defend himself]]. Second, ''[[TranquilFury if you harm Daniel or any of the Sorrows or Dead Horses]], [[PapaWolf I will find you]]''. Make no mistake, God willing, [[ImpliedDeathThreat you will not leave this valley]]. Lastly, making war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.
-->-- ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Honest Hearts''

->''"[[VillainProtagonist Mr. Heathcliff]], you have ''nobody'' to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery! You ''are'' miserable, are you not? Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him? ''Nobody'' loves you -- ''nobody'' will [[LonelyFuneral cry for you when you die]]! I wouldn't be you!"''
-->-- '''Catherine Linton''', ''Literature/WutheringHeights''

->''"I can't take no more of this grief! No social life, no civilian life, no life... ''PERIOD''! Nothing other than being the Scorpion... and being the Scorpion '''STINKS'''!"''

->'''Ned:''' You're screwing the villains. It's not really one fight after another.\\
'''Mrs. Yamada:''' Being a villain is hard.\\
'''[[ReformedCriminal Weaver]]:''' One in twenty might make it in the long run. If they're lucky, if they're good, if they have friends they can count on.\\
'''Reynard:''' Pat yourself on the back a little more.\\
'''Weaver:''' I wasn't satisfied doing what I was doing, as a villain. [[HeelFaceTurn I switched sides by choice]]. Think about that. Even after all of that, after everything I had, even though I felt pretty good, [[JustifiedCriminal spending all of that money on helping people in my neighborhood]], being front page news, I gave it up.
-->-- '''Weaver''' explains this trope to middle-schoolers, ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

->''"[[ThirdPersonPerson Waspinator]] sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator especially sick of ''[[TheyKilledKennyAgain getting blown to scrap all the time]]!'' So... Waspinator [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere QUIT]]!"''
-->-- '''[[TheChewToy Waspinator]]''', ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''

->''"Abashed the Devil stood\\
and felt how awful goodness is, and saw\\
Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined\\
His loss."''
-->-- ''Literature/ParadiseLost''

->''"Stop thinking of [[Franchise/StarWars the Dark Side]] as some pathway to power. That's the Emperor lying to you. It's destructive. Darth Vader is miserable. He lost everything. He has no one in his life, absolutely nothing until his son comes back and says, 'I love you'. Other than that, his life is a wreck... that's not the way to live your life. I see a lot of adoration. I get that the bad guys are cool. But they are evil. You really don't want to be them!"''
-->-- '''Creator/DaveFiloni'''

->'''Jade Chan:''' Don't you three know when to quit?\\
'''[[TerribleTrio Finn, Ratso and Chow]]:''' ''[simultaneously]'' We quit!\\
'''All of the heroes:''' Huh?\\
'''Ratso:''' We're tired of never making money!\\
'''Chow:''' We're tired of [[MookCarryover being enslaved]] by [[ArcVillain dragons, wizards, and floating demon heads]]!\\
'''Finn:''' But most of all, we're tired of getting our butts kicked! By you.\\
'''Ratso:''' Yeah! It hurts.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', "The Good Guys"

->'''PlayerCharacter:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What kind of life have you lived with the Force flowing through you? Was it worth living?]]\\
'''[[TechnicallyLivingZombie Darth Sion]]:''' It... it was not. No matter how many I killed... [[ImmortalityHurts there was no end to the pain... the blades the Force tore through my flesh]].
-->-- ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''

->''"Why is being the bad guy so hard."''
-->-- '''[[BrainwashedAndCrazy Jade]]''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

->''How rewarding can your job be if you spend forty hours a week hammering away at people who are already hurting?''
-->-- ''Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money'', on why the crueler of the bill collecting agencies have such high employee turnover

->''"You'd think killing people [[IJustWantToHaveFriends might make them like you]], but it doesn't. ''[{{Beat}}]'' [[ShapedLikeItself It just makes people dead]]."''
-->-- '''Voldemort''', ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical''

->'''Neku:''' Hey, your [[spoiler: [[PowerGivesYouWings wings]]]] are gone!\\

->'''Proxy:''' I hate being him [Darth Vader].\\
'''Starkiller:''' I think he does too.
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''

->''"[[ShutUpHannibal No]], ''you'' listen. [[PeerPressureMakesYouEvil You turned out to be exactly who I thought you were]]. I never pretended to be somebody else. It's been me all along. And it was me who was hurt in front of everybody. Look, I didn't come here to yell at you, okay? I know what it feels like to be afraid to show who you are. I was. But not anymore. And the thing is, I don't care what people think about me... because I believe in myself. [[IJustWantToBeFree And I know that things are gonna be okay]]. But even though I have no family, and no job, and no money for college... it's ''you'' that I feel sorry for."''
-->-- '''Samantha''', ''Film/ACinderellaStory''

->'''Yoda:''' I want... I want a rose.\\
'''Dooku:''' Be serious.\\
'''Yoda:''' Serious am I! Another rose, make for me!\\
'''Dooku:''' The dark side springs from the heart. It isn't a handbook for cheap conjuror's tricks.\\
'''Yoda:''' But like this trick, do I! The trick that brings the flower from the ground. The trick that sets the sun on fire.
-->-- ''Literature/DarkRendezvous''

->''"How'd we get into the sex-crime business anyway? My brother Saul, a plumber, makes twice as much money as I do and gets three weeks vacation, too."''
-->-- '''Weasel''', ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''

->''"Guess it's not a good day to be a bad guy, huh, Skank?"''
-->-- '''Eric Draven''', ''Film/TheCrow''

->''"Let me explains something to you kid. What I do, running around stealing shit, that may sound great when you're 15 years old, but it sucks [[{{Understatement}} just a little bit]] when you're 35, you got no family, no house, I've got a partner who's a 56 year old alcoholic who can't figure out why they took ''Series/HappyDays'' off the air, and then I got to turn on the TV every day and see kids like you, one after another on these talk shows, you got everything, opportunities up the ass, you got a family to come home to, and what do you do? You sit around, and you bitch and you moan, because things don't go your way. Well, you know what kid, welcome to the real world where most times, things don't go your fucking way."''
-->-- '''Gus''', ''Film/TheRef''

->''"Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. And ruining Regina George's life definitely didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you."''
-->-- '''Cady Heron''', ''Film/MeanGirls''

->''"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did."''
-->-- '''Mark Baum''', ''Film/TheBigShort''

->''"I think when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And, finally, it becomes so familiar that one can't ever remember feeling any other way."''
-->-- '''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded The Wounded]]"

->'''writing-prompt-s:''' "In a game with no consequences, why are you still playing the ‘Good’ side?"\\

->''"There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, [[SerialKiller all the mayhem I have caused]] and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. [[FateWorseThanDeath My pain is constant and sharp]], and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. [[MisanthropeSupreme In fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others]]. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, [[CantGetInTroubleForNuthin there is no catharsis]]; [[KarmaHoudini my punishment continues to elude me]], and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. [[IronicHell This confession has meant nothing]]."''
-->-- '''Patrick Bateman''', ''Literature/AmericanPsycho''

->''"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death\\
I take a look at my life, and realize there's nothin' left\\
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long\\
That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone"''
-->--'''Music/{{Coolio}}''', "Gangsta's Paradise"

->''"Welcome. I am [[spoiler:Ballos]]. Ages ago, in fear of enduring further punishment, I allowed my magic to run wild... its power soon became such that not even its master's hands could control it. As I looked on, unable to quell its fiery rage, it took from me my loved ones, my children, my dearest wife... their cries of agony soared above the flames. Unable to avert my eyes, I merely gazed upon the spectacle... laughing... [[spoiler:Jenka sealed me away]], but my magic yet rages out of control even now. Long, long have I waited... waited for the one who would subdue my magic's fury... [[ICannotSelfTerminate now, kill me! Or I... shall kill YOU!]]"''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:[[TrueFinalBoss Ballos]]]]''', ''VideoGame/CaveStory''

->'''Mr. Snake:''' I'll give [[spoiler:Marmalade]] this. [[StrawNihilist At least he sees the world for what it is]]: a place where some people are scary, and some people are scared.\\
'''[[VillainProtagonist Mr. Wolf]]:''' Oh yeah?! Well I'm ''tired'' of being scary! I'm... I'm ''tired'' of being an outcast!
-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022 The Bad Guys]]''

-> '''Vanellope:''' What is the big whoop about that crummy medal anyway?\\
'''Ralph:''' The Big Whoop? Well, this may come as a shock to you, but in my game, I'm the bad guy and I live in the garbage.\\
'''Vanellope:''' Cool.\\
'''Ralph:''' No! Not cool. Unhygienic, and lonely, and boring. And that crummy medal was going to change all that.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''

->''"[[TheMafiya This life]]... follows you. It clings to you. Infecting everyone that comes close to you. We are cursed, you and I."''
-->--'''Viggo Tarasov''', ''Film/JohnWick''

->''"Hngh... In a way, I admire what you have, [[PlayerCharacter Protector]]. All these years driven by vengeance, surrounded by hateful people? I've lived a lonely life."''
-->--'''Asra Nox''', ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}''

-> ''"In the old days, it would not have been my style to make an alliance. I would have slaughtered my neighbors in battle. But... then you wake up and you think, 'I've got no neighbors. What if I want to borrow something?' I'm ready to make a change."''
-->-- '''Nandor''', ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019''

%%-> ''"If I'm really honest with myself, I see [[AllLovingHero Felix]] up there getting patted on the back, people are giving him pie and thanking him, and so happy to see him all the time. Sometimes I think...Man, it sure must be nice being the good guy."''
%%-->-- '''Ralph''', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''

-->-- '''Nandor''', ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''

->''"[[TheMafiya This life]] ... follows you. It clings to you. Infecting everyone that comes close to you. We are cursed, you and I."''

->''"This [[TheMafiya life]] ... follows you. It clings to you. Infecting everyone that comes close to you. We are cursed, you and I."''

-> ''"In the old days, it would not have been my style to make an alliance. I would have slaughtered my neighbors in battle. But... then you wake up and you think, 'I've got no neighbors. What if I want to borrow something?' I'm ready to make a change."''
-->-- '''Nandor''', ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''

->''"Hngh... In a way, I admire what you have, [[PlayerCharacter Protector]]. All these years driven by vengeance, surrounded by hateful people? I've lived a lonely life."

%%-> ''"If I'm really honest with myself, I see [[AllLovingHero Felix]] up there getting patted on the back, people are giving him pie and thanking him, and so happy to see him all the time. Sometimes I think...Man, it sure must be nice being the good guy."''\\
-->-- '''Ralph''', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''

%%-> ''"If I'm really honest with myself, I see [[AllLovingHero Felix]] up there getting patted on the back, people are giving him pie and thanking him, and so happy to see him all the time. Sometimes I think...Man, it sure must be nice being the good guy."''
%%-->-- '''Ralph''', ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''