History Quotes / LawfulStupid

->''"Lawful stupid is the paladin that charges into hell because he knows there's evil there."''
-->--anonymous

->''"All evil, even potential evil, must be eradicated."''
-->-- '''Kore''', ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}''

->The paladin's alignment is not Lawful Anal.
-->''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG''

->''"[...]only if law serves justice is it a good law."''
-->--'''Boba Fett''', ''[[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Tales of the Bounty Hunters]]''

->''"It was clear that the actions in Crimea would lead to sanctions, capital flight, and a deterioration of Russia’s reputation, but nobody supporting the aggression thought twice. The imperial horn has been sounded. But we are [[{{Russia}} a Third World kleptocracy]] hiding behind imperial symbols. There are no resources for a true imperial revival."''
-->--Columnist '''Stanislav Belkovsky''' on UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin

->''"Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair I expect our own civilization will do likewise.]]”''
-->--'''Daniel Suarez''', ''Freedom™''

->''"Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and I expect our own civilization will do likewise.”''

->''"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."''
-->--'''UlyssesSGrant'''

->''"In the SovietUnion it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything."''
-->--'''TomClancy'''

->''"My friends in Los Angeles got these letters warning they could be fined if they water, and I got a letter warning that I could be [[MortonsFork fined for not watering]]. I felt like I was in an alternate universe."''
-->--''[[http://jezebel.com/ca-couple-may-face-500-fine-for-letting-yard-dry-out-1608034023 Laura Whitney]]''

->''The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.''
-->-- '''Jonathan Schwartz''', "Iron Law of Institutions"

->''"There’s an odd tendency among out-of-power political parties to spend a while doubling down on ideological purity in openly self-destructive ways. In the US it’s happening lately with the Republican Party, which, after losing the 2008 election by a landslide [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama to a center-left candidate]] began insisting that their real problem was that John [=McCain=] [[NoTrueScotsman wasn’t conservative enough]], a theory that assumes a large block of voters who, frustrated at [=McCain’s=] lack of conservatism, decided to vote for [[InsaneTrollLogic an even less conservative candidate.]]"''
-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/10/has-it-taught-you-wonderful-things.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"Paul Joyce was a very technically-minded director, meaning that although the designers and visual effects team have nothing but praise for him, others are less enthusiastic... Joyce also got into a dispute with the lighting director, John Dixon, because Joyce wanted to include the lights in a shot of the privateer set (implying that they were part of the privateer) and Dixon wound up stopping the show for two hours in protest. Joyce would later describe the incident as '[[KafkaComedy Kafkaesque.]]'"''
-->--'''Alan Stevens''' and '''Fiona Moore''' [[http://www.kaldorcity.com/features/articles/warriors.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate}} "Warrior's Gate"]]

->''"My friends in Los Angeles got these letters warning they could be fined if they water, and I got a letter warning that I could be fined for not watering. I felt like I was in an alternate universe."''

-->--'''Rorschach''', ''{{Watchmen}}''

-->-- '''Roy Greenhilt to Miko Miyazaki''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

-->''ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG''

->You're not Good, at least not any definition of Good that I would want to follow. You follow the letter of the alignment description while ignoring its intent. Sure, you fight Evil, but when was the last time you showed a "concern for the dignity of sentient beings?" You're just a mean, socially inept bully who hides behind a badge and her holier-than-thou morality as excuses to treat other people like crap.
-->-- '''Roy Greenhilt to Miko Miyazaki''', ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick''

-->-- '''Kore''', ''{{Goblins}}''

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-->-- '''Roy Greenhilt to Miko Miyazaki''', ''TheOrderOfTheStick''

-->--'''Philipp Melanchthon''', ''Loci Communes''

-->- '''Roy to Miko Miyazaki''', ''TheOrderOfTheStick''

->You're not Good, at least not any definition of Good that I would want to follow. You follow the letter of the alignment description while ignoring its intent. Sure, you fight Evil, but when was the last time you showed a "concern for the dignity of sentient beings"? You're just a mean, socially inept bully who hides behind a badge and her holier-than-thou morality as excuses to treat other people like crap.