History Quotes / PunchClockVillain

->''"I'm not a "crazed gunman", [[WellDoneSonGuy dad]], I'm an assassin! ...Well, the "difference" being, one is a job, and the other's a ''mental sickness!'' (...) Dad, put mum on the phone."''

->''"In addition to that, [German villains] tend to come with a certain kind of flair... but, most crucially, you can rely on them to be very, very evil 24/7. Well, perhaps not really 24/7, but 9-5/4, plus 9-noon on Fridays. They are unionized, after all. In their off time, they're not necessarily evil... although they can still be quite annoying, in a gratingly arrogant way, even when refereeing a Junior League game on a Saturday."''
-->-- TheRant for ''Webcomic/TheBMovieComic''

->''"I hate being stereotyped. I'm not a cold-blooded killer. I'm a nice guy! I love my wife, I have two boys I'm very proud of. You just have to make the ends meet. And if that means I have to shoot someone now and then, hey, it's just my job from 9-5."''
-->-- EnemyChatter, ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''

->''"Look, I was told to walk in a certain pattern, over and over, until something interesting happens! ''[{{Beat}}]'' WELL, I DON'T SEE YOU GETTING A JOB!"''
-->-- '''Some {{Mook|s}} on His Phone''', ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''

->''"I'm not a "crazed gunman", [[WellDoneSonGuy dad]], I'm an assassin! ...Well, the "difference" being, one is a job, and the other's a ''mental sickness!'' (...) Dad, put mum on the phone."''
-->-- '''[[FriendlySniper The Sniper]]''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[Machinima/TeamFortress2 "Meet the Sniper"]]

->'''Beat:''' Quit screwin' with us!\\
'''Kariya:''' [[LampshadeHanging Um, villain? Screwin' with you is my job]].
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''

->'''Spider-Man:''' You again?!\\
'''Silver Sable:''' Down, boy, my contract with Trask expired 10 minutes ago.
-->-- ''VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan''

->''"Stop fighting back! You're gonna get me fired!"''
-->-- '''Hyperion Engineer''', ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''

->'''Mash:''' So why are you doing this!?\\
'''William Tell:''' ...Heh. I don't know what you're on about. I'm just a hunter Servant, bound by contract to do what his Master orders. That's all there is to it. It's not my place to decide how this world should be. Woods are woods, as far as I'm concerned.
-->-- ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''

->''"We don't wanna do to war today\\
But the Lord of the Lash says: "nay, nay, nay!"\\
We're gonna march all day, all day, all day!\\
Where there's a whip, there's a way!\\
''[...]''\\
The crack on the back says we're gonna fight\\
We're gonna march all day and night and more\\
For we are the slaves of the Dark Lord's war.\\
Left, right, left, right, left, right"''
-->-- The orcs of Mordor, ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing''

->''"Lots of people in history have only done their jobs, and look at the trouble ''they'' caused."''
-->-- '''Aziraphale''', ''Literature/GoodOmens''

->''The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.''
-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis''', ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters''

->''"I don't give a shit about politics. I don't care who is in power, what party wants to make a balls-up of everything. But I know people like you. I have been meeting them all my life. You would serve Hitler, your type. Or Mussolini, or the OAS if it suited you. Or anybody. Regimes change, but bastards like you never change..." He was shouting, limping towards the man with the gun whose snout had not quavered a millimetre in the hand that held it.''
-->-- ''Literature/TheDayOfTheJackal''

->''"Massaraksh!" The prisoner wiped his tears with his shoulder. "Some threat!" He turned to the civilian. "But you, you're still a young man. You must learn to do your job coolly, officially -- for the money. It makes an enormous impression on the victims of your inquisition. What an appalling state of affairs when you find yourself being tortured not by an enemy but by a bureaucrat. Take a look at my left arm. His Imperial Majesty's specialists sawed it off in three stages; and each order was accompanied by a lengthy official correspondence. Those butchers were just doing a disagreeable, boring, unrewarding job. While they were sawing off my arm, they cursed their wretchedly low pay. And I was terrified. I had to strain my willpower to keep from talking."''
-->-- ''Literature/PrisonersOfPower''

->''"Werner Lampe, an old man who [[WoundedGazelleGambit cries into his Bible now]]; an old man who profited from the property expropriation of every man he sent to a concentration camp. Friedrich Hofstetter, the butcher who knew how to take orders, who sent men before him to be sterilized like so many digits. Emil Hahn, the decayed, corrupt bigot, obsessed by the evil within himself. And Ernst Janning, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone worse than any of them, because he knew what they were, and he went along with them]]."''
-->-- '''Ernst Janning''', ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg''

->''"I work for Vizzini to pay the bills. There's not a lot of money in revenge."''
-->-- '''Inigo Montoya''', ''Film/ThePrincessBride''

->'''Vitaly:''' She really doesn't know how you pay for all this?\\
'''Yuri:''' We don't talk about it. How many car salesmen talk about their work, huh? How many cigarette salesmen? Both their products kill more people every year than mine. At least mine has a safety switch. If those guys can leave their work at the office, then so can I.
-->-- ''Film/LordOfWar''

->''"I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were ''not'' monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love. But they had the strength -- the ''strength'' -- [[WouldHurtAChild to do that]]. If I had 10 divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling."''
-->-- '''Col. Walter Edmund Kurtz''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''

->'''Patrice:''' Please, understand... please try-- ''[gunshot]'' Aah! ...there's a boat by the quay... please understand, it was all business. [[NothingPersonal It wasn't personal]]!\\
'''Bryan:''' [[ItsPersonal It was all personal to me]]. ''[five gunshots]''
-->-- ''Film/{{Taken}}''

->''"Honor will not put food in my belly nor shoe my horse."''
-->-- '''Bowen''', ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''

->'''Turner:''' ''[[spoiler:[after Joubert shoots [[BigBad Atwood]]]]]'' Why?
->'''Joubert:''' I don't interest myself in "why". I think more often in terms of "when", sometimes "where", always "[[OnlyInItForTheMoney how much]]".
-->-- ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor''

->''"Until we understand that our enemies are also human we will never be able to defeat them. Yes, they are 'bad guys', but that's what they ''do'', not who they are."''
-->-- '''Maxwell Smart''', ''Film/GetSmart''

->''"I'm not a "crazed gunman", [[WellDoneSonGuy dad]], I'm an assassin! ...Well, the "difference" being, one is a job, and the other's a ''mental sickness!'' ... Put mum on the phone."''

->"You don't get it, Em. These people... they were ''scary''. They're so... they're just so ''normal!'' I've done some dark stuff, [[EvenEvilHasStandards but these people]]--they would strangle you with a smile on their face and a hymn in their heart, then go on to their bowling league!" Mercury shuddered. "It's on Thursdays... I don't know why that's the most unsettling part of this story, but it ''is''."

->''"I relate to you, Ralph. When I hit bottom, I was crushing man’s skull like sparrow’s egg between my thighs. And I ask myself, 'Why must you be such bad guy, Zangief? Why can't you be more like good guy?' Then I have moment of clarity: If Zangief is good guy, who will crush man’s skull like sparrow’s egg between thighs? And I say, Zangief, you are bad guy. But this does not mean you are bad ''guy''."''

->"Werner Lampe, an old man who [[WoundedGazelleGambit cries into his Bible now]]; an old man who profited from the property expropriation of every man he sent to a concentration camp. Friedrich Hofstetter, the butcher who knew how to take orders, who sent men before him to be sterilized like so many digits. Emil Hahn, the decayed, corrupt bigot, obsessed by the evil within himself. And Ernst Janning, worse than any of them, because he knew what they were, and he went along with them."
-->--'''Ernst Janning''', ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg''

-->--''Film/LordOfWar''

->'''Henchman''': Should we take La Miranda tonight?
->'''Carlos Santana''': Nah, I don't like to work on the weekends. Tonight... it's karaoke!

->''"I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were ''not'' monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love. But they had the strength--the ''strength''--[[WouldHurtAChild to do that]]. If I had 10 divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling."''

->'''Patrice''': Please, understand... please try- ''[gunshot]'' Aah! ...there's a boat by the quay... please understand, it was all business. [[NothingPersonal It wasn't personal!]]\\
'''Bryan''': [[ItsPersonal It was all personal to me.]] ''[five gunshots]''

->''"At the same time as trying to lead a good life, I have to reconcile myself with the fact that, yes, I have killed people. Not many people. Most of them were'' not very nice'' people."''

->'''Turner:''' ([[spoiler: after Joubert shoots Atwood, the BigBad]]) Why?

->'''Zangief''': General Bison is a bad guy? If you know then why do you work for him?
->'''Dee Jay''': Because he paid me a freakin' fortune, you moron!
->'''Zangief''': ([[StunnedSilence silence while Dee Jay makes his exit from the collapsing base]]) [[DumbMuscle You got... paid??]]

->''"The Russians are closer today than yesterday. Some of them are remembering that in 1943 they had to eat frozen German corpses to stay alive. Now they long to drink hot German blood. There were rumors, boy, that some of them did just that when they crossed into Germany: cut the throats of some prisoners and drank their blood out of a boot. I would wake up and think: ''The work must go on, if only [[DestroyTheEvidence so there is no evidence of what we did here,]] or so little that the world, which doesn't want to believe it, won't have to.'' I would think: ''The work must go on if we are to survive."

->''"Down there are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no."''

-->-- ''Literature/NightWatchDiscworld''

->''The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.
-->--'''Creator/CSLewis''', ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters''

->"I don't give a shit about politics. I don't care who is in power, what party wants to make a balls-up of everything. But I know people like you. I have been meeting them all my life. You would serve Hitler, your type. Or Mussolini, or the OAS if it suited you. Or anybody. Regimes change, but bastards like you never change..." He was shouting, limping towards the man with the gun whose snout had not quavered a millimetre in the hand that held it.

->I walked through the door, past the cold eyes of gang enforcers on guard duty, the sort of men who wouldn't balk at breaking bones and cutting up dead bodies before heading home to tell their daughter a bedtime story.
-->--''The Traitor God,'' by Cameron Johnston

->"Massaraksh!" The prisoner wiped his tears with his shoulder. "Some threat!" He turned to the civilian. "But you, you're still a young man. You must learn to do your job coolly, officially -- for the money. It makes an enormous impression on the victims of your inquisition. What an appalling state of affairs when you find yourself being tortured not by an enemy but by a bureaucrat. Take a look at my left arm. His Imperial Majesty's specialists sawed it off in three stages; and each order was accompanied by a lengthy official correspondence. Those butchers were just doing a disagreeable, boring, unrewarding job. While they were sawing off my arm, they cursed their wretchedly low pay. And I was terrified. I had to strain my willpower to keep from talking."
-->-- '''Creator/StrugatskyBrothers''', ''Prisoners of Power''

-->-- '''Interrogator''', ''Series/BabylonFive''

'''Programmer:''' That's not our fault, [[JustFollowingOrders we're just doing our jobs!]]\\

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Bad Wolf"

-->-- '''Music/DriveByTruckers''', "The Buford Stick"

"John, it`s just my job\\

Sure don`t make it right\\

I`ll say a prayer for your soul tonight''

->''"For some, working for a subsidiary of [[EvilInc Pentex]] is simply a way to get a paycheck - an apathetic belief that suits [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm]]'s plans perfectly."''

->''"I get my crime over the first thing in the morning, and then, ha! ha! for the rest of the day I do good--I do good--I do good!"''

-->--'''Renon''', ''VideoGame/Castlevania64''

->"I hate being stereotyped. I'm not a cold-blooded killer. I'm a nice guy! I love my wife, I have two boys I'm very proud of. You just have to make the ends meet. And if that means I have to shoot someone now and then, hey, it's just my job from 9-5."

->''"Look, I was told to walk in a certain pattern, over and over, until something interesting happens! ''[{{Beat}}]'' WELL I DON'T SEE YOU GETTING A JOB!"''
-->-- '''Some {{Mook}} on His Phone''', ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''

->''"I'm not a "crazed gunman", [[WellDoneSonGuy Dad]], I'm an assassin! ....Well the "difference" being, one is a job, and the other's a ''mental sickness!'' ... Put mum on the phone."''

->'''Beat''': Quit screwin' with us!\\
'''Kariya''': [[LampshadeHanging Um, villain? Screwin' with you is my job]].

->'''Franchise/SpiderMan''': You again?!\\
'''Silver Sable''': Down, boy, my contract with Trask expired 10 minutes ago.

->'''Reno''': All right, Corneo. This'll be over quick, so listen up. Why do you think we went to all the trouble of teaming up with those guys to get you? 1. Because we were ready to die, 2. Because we were sure of victory, or 3. Because we were clueless.
->'''Don Corneo''': Two!!! Number Two!!!
->'''Reno''': All wrong. (''Corneo falls to his death.'') The correct answer was....
->'''Rude''': ...because it's our job.

->'''Mash:''' So why are you doing this!?
->'''William Tell:''' ...Heh. I don't know what you're on about. I'm just a hunter Servant, bound by contract to do what his Master orders. That's all there is to it. It's not my place to decide how this world should be. Woods are woods, as far as I'm concerned.

->'''Rutger''': We're mercenaries--we follow the money, not ideologies. We're hired to do a job, no questions asked. Pay us and we'll fight your war for you. We'll risk our lives for nothing more than a few coins. We walk the thin line between life and death, from battlefield to battlefield. That's the jaeger way of life, and we don't know any other.
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel IV''

->''"In addition to that, [German villains] tend to come with a certain kind of flair…but, most crucially, you can rely on them to be very, very evil 24/7. Well, perhaps not really 24/7, but 9-5/4, plus 9-noon on Fridays. They are unionized, after all. In their off time, they’re not necessarily evil…although they can still be quite annoying, in a gratingly arrogant way, even when refereeing a Junior League game on a Saturday."''
-->-- The rant for ''Webcomic/TheBMovieComic'',

->''"Most [=JRPGs=] eventually have you [[StormingTheCastle storming the evil king or wizard's castle]], which is usually a wide, torch-lit stone building filled with red carpets, suits of armor, padlocked wooden doors, prisons, and miles of empty hallways. The core of VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII's evil empire is [[MegaCorp a modern corporate skyscraper]], complete with bustling suits, overworked secretaries, vending machines, break rooms, conference tables, etc. Now ''this'' is the kind of place I'd expect to find [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the evil despots of today.]]"''
-->-- '''Pat R.'''', "[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff07 This Game Are Sick]]"

'''Trickster:''' Gotta visualise!\\
'''Captain Cold:''' "Visualise"? What the heck does that mean? If I don't "visualise" a mortgage payment soon, the wife will have me bagging groceries for a living!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', "Flash and Substance"

-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]''

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', ''The Good Guys''[[note]]Granted, the [[TerribleTrio Enforcers]] had just stolen a priceless artifact, but they normally cross blades with the heroes only because they're [[MookCarryover forced to work]] for supernatural villains who are not motivated by money like them.[[/note]]

->''"I was never an anti-Semite. ... I personally had nothing to do with this. My job was to observe and report on it."''
-->-- '''Adolf Eichmann'''

-->-- '''Rudolf Höss''', Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp

-->--'''Creator/TimothyZahn''', in [[http://gabri-jade.livejournal.com/206266.html an interview]].

-->--'''Stanley Milgram''', ''"The Perils of Obedience"''

->''"People of Tolkien's generation had a problem identifying evil. They had no difficulty recognizing it, they had to live through it. But the puzzling thing was that this seemed to be carried out by entirely normal people. And indeed Tolkien, who was a combat veteran, knew that [[NotSoDifferent his own side did things like that too]]. The nature of evil in the 20th century has been curiously impersonal. It's as if sometimes nobody particularly wants to do it. In the end you get the major atrocities of the 20th century being carried out by bureaucrats. Well, the people who do that kind of things are wraiths. They've gone through the wraithing process. they don't know what's good and evil any more. It's become a job or a routine. You start out with good intentions but somehow [[GoneHorriblyWrong it all goes wrong]]. So it's a curiously distinctive image of evil, and I should say it's also a very unwelcome one. Because what it says is, it could be you. And, in fact, under the right circumstances, or I should say the wrong circumstances, it ''will'' be you. When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world and so on, well, I think ''that's'' an evasion. It's actually trying to confront something that most people would rather not confront."''

->''If the Nazis had won, of course, things on the surface would eventually have settled down to an appearance of normality. The milkman would deliver his milk in the morning, the policeman would enforce the law, the doctor would cure the sick, people would still worry about their jobs, fight with their wives, save for a new car. But they would be living in a nightmare, buried in a graveyard of human hope and dignity, trapped in a hell they would never recognize, much less question. The long dark night would have begun, and finally man would not even remember the light.''
-->--'''Albert Speer''', in a 1971 interview with {{Playboy}}

-->-- '''Ken''', ''Film/InBruges''

->'' "Massaraksh!" The prisoner wiped his tears with his shoulder. "Some threat!" He turned to the civilian. "But you, you're still a young man. You must learn to do your job coolly, officially -- for the money. It makes an enormous impression on the victims of your inquisition. What an appalling state of affairs when you find yourself being tortured not by an enemy but by a bureaucrat. Take a look at my left arm. His Imperial Majesty's specialists sawed it off in three stages; and each order was accompanied by a lengthy official correspondence. Those butchers were just doing a disagreeable, boring, unrewarding job. While they were sawing off my arm, they cursed their wretchedly low pay. And I was terrified. I had to strain my willpower to keep from talking.
-->-- '''Creator/StrugatskyBrothers''', '''Literature/Prisoners of Power'''

->''"The Russians are closer today than yesterday. Some of them are remembering that in 1943 they had to eat frozen German corpses to stay alive. Now they long to drink hot German blood. There were rumors, boy, that some of them did just that when they crossed into Germany: cut the throats of some prisoners and drank their blood out of a boot. I would wake up and think: ''The work must go on, if only [[DestroyTheEvidence so there is no evidence of what we did here,]] or so little that the world, which doesn't want to believe it, won't have to.'' I would think: ''The work must go on if we are to survive.''"

->''"Until we understand that our enemies are also human we will never be able to defeat them. Yes, they are 'bad guys', but that's what they do, not who they are."''

->'''Dee Jay''': Because he paid me a freakin' fortune, man! If you know what's good for you you'll save your own ass!