History Quotes / ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight

->''"He was a lonely and distraught figure. He spent his says in the offices of the Belgrade Circle headquarters, where he drank too much coffee and smoked too many cigarettes. He was a one-man crusade against [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars the nationalist madness]]. He was pointedly ignored by the Serbian media, who usually only quoted from him after his comments appeared in my articles...The student protestors who mounted demonstrations against the Milošević government [[SnubByOmission never invited him to speak]], preferring to listen to rants by Serbian nationalists, who [[KarmaHoudini fomented the war in the first place]]. These speakers condemned Milošević for betraying the nationalist cause. The callous indifference of the university students hurt Zivotic tremendously.\\\

->''"...when Kirk or Picard (or Sisko or Janeway or Archer) is faced with violating [[AlienNonInterferenceClause the Prime Directive]] to resolve a crisis, you can usually count on scads of pretentious brooding, circular arguments, and heart-rending shots of suffering natives, culminating in the moment where the Captain defies all logic and everything he stands for by shouting, 'Screw the Prime Directive, I'm going in!'"''
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

-->--''TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn''

->''"[[Music/FrankSinatra Sinatra]] had indeed been active in left-wing (by American standards) activities. In 1946 he blasted [[FranciscoFranco Franco]]...In 1948 he supported Henry Wallace against the proto-[=McCarthyite=] HarrySTruman. Undeterred by the harm to his career, Sinatra ran a letter to the then liberal ''New Republic'' imploring Henry Wallace, as heir to [[FranklinDRoosevelt Roosevelt]], 'to take up the fight we like to think of as ours--the fight for tolerance, which is the basis of fight for any peace'...three months later he was publicly branded a Communist and sacked from his radio show; by 1949 Columbia Records had broken with him and by 1950 MGM dismissed him from his film contract. A has-been at thirty-four."''

-->--'''Chris Hedges''' on Prof. Miladin Zivotic, Serbian anti-facist

-->--'''Chris Hedges''' on Prof. Miladin Zivotic, Bosnian dissident

->''"[[Music/FrankSinatra Sinatra]] had indeed been active in left-wing (by American standards) activities. In 1946 he blasted Franco...In 1948 he supported Henry Wallace against the proto-[=McCarthyite=] HarrySTruman. Undeterred by the harm to his career, Sinatra ran a letter to the then liberal ''New Republic'' imploring Henry Wallace, as heir to [[FranklinDRoosevelt Roosevelt]], 'to take up the fight we like to think of as ours--the fight for tolerance, which is the basis of fight for any peace'...three months later he was publicly branded a Communist and sacked from his radio show; by 1949 Columbia Records had broken with him and by 1950 MGM dismissed him from his film contract. A has-been at thirty-four."''

'''Odo:''' The "law"? Laws change [[WrittenByTheVictors depending on who's making them]]. Cardassians one day, Federation the next. But justice is justice.

->''"...when Kirk or Picard (or Sisko or Janeway or Archer) is faced with violating [[AlienNonInterferenceClause the Prime Directive]] to resolve a crisis, you can usually count on scads of pretentious brooding, circular arguments, and heart-rending shots of suffering natives, culminating in the moment where the Captain defies all logic and everything he stands for by shouting, 'Screw the Prime Directive, I'm going in!'"''
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

->''"Sinatra had indeed been active in left-wing (by American standards) activities. In 1946 he blasted Franco...In 1948 he supported Henry Wallace against the proto-[=McCarthyite=] HarrySTruman. Undeterred by the harm to his career, Sinatra ran a letter to the then liberal ''New Republic'' imploring Henry Wallace, as heir to [[FranklinDRoosevelt Roosevelt]], 'to take up the fight we like to think of as ours--the fight for tolerance, which is the basis of fight for any peace'...three months later he was publicly branded a Communist and sacked from his radio show; by 1949 Columbia Records had broken with him and by 1950 MGM dismissed him from his film contract. A has-been at thirty-four."''

->''Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are.''
-->--'''UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt'''

->''"...when Kirk or Picard (or Sisko or Janeway or Archer) is faced with violating [[AlienNonInterferenceClause the Prime Directive]] to resolve a crisis, you can usually count on scads of pretentious brooding, circular arguments, and heart-rending shots of suffering natives, culminating in the moment where the Captain defies all logic and everything he stands for by shouting, 'Screw the Prime Directive, I'm going in!'"''
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

->[W]''hen Kirk or Picard (or Sisko or Janeway or Archer) is faced with violating [[AlienNonInterferenceClause the Prime Directive]] to resolve a crisis, you can usually count on scads of pretentious brooding, circular arguments, and heart-rending shots of suffering natives, culminating in the moment where the Captain defies all logic and everything he stands for by shouting, "Screw the Prime Directive, I'm going in!"''

->''If Snape gets hold of the Stone, Voldemort's coming back! Haven't you heard what it was like when he was trying to take over? There won't be any Hogwarts to get expelled from! He'll flatten it, or turn it into a school for the Dark Arts! Losing points doesn't matter anymore, can't you see? D'you think he'll leave you and your families alone if Gryffindor wins the house cup?''

->"Screw protocol, Reid's in trouble!"

->"I don't care about protocol, I don't care whether we're working this officially. We don't touch any new cases until we find out who did this."

->"Those who break laws are scum. And those who abandon their friends to follow the law... ''they're lower than scum!''"

->"Well, there's the law and there's what's right. I'm gonna do what's right."

->"Troopers! I just received new orders: our superiors say the war is cancelled. We can all go home. Bison is getting paid off for his crimes, and our friends who have died here...will have died for nothing. But, we can all go home. Meanwhile, ideals like peace, freedom, and justice, they get packed up. But, we can all go home. Well, I'm not going home. I'm gonna get on my boat, and I'm going up river, and I'm going to kick that son of a bitch Bison's ass so hard that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it! Now, who wants to go home...and WHO WANTS TO GO WITH ME?!"

->"I recognize that the council has made a [[NukeEm decision]]. But given that it's a [[PrecisionFStrike stupid-ass]] decision, I have elected to ignore it."

-->"Being legal ''doesn't'' make it right."

->"Regardless of the circumstances, we were saved by Ichigo Kurosaki in our time of need. It is now time that we returned the favor. Even if that should require violating our own statutes, to allow such a debt to go unpaid would bring eternal shame upon the entire Gotei."

->"I used to believe that being a good soldier meant [[JustFollowingOrders doing everything they told you]]. That's how they engineered us. But we're not droids. We're not programmed. You have to learn to make your own decisions!"

-->--'''[[SamuelLJackson Nick Fury]]''', ''Film/TheAvengers''

-->--'''FranklinRoosevelt'''

-->--'''HarryPotter''', ''HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''

-->--'''''TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

->''Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.''

-->--'''''TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''StarTrekInsurrection''

->''"Screw protocol, Reid's in trouble!"''

->''"I don't care about protocol, I don't care whether we're working this officially. We don't touch any new cases until we find out who did this."''

->''"Those who break laws are scum. And those who abandon their friends to follow the law... ''they're lower than scum!''"''

->''"Well, there's the law and there's what's right. I'm gonna do what's right."''

->''"I recognize that the council has made a [[NukeEm decision]]. But given that it's a [[PrecisionFStrike stupid-ass]] decision, I have elected to ignore it."''

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-->--''WyrdSisters''

->''"I recognize that the council has made a decision. But given that it's a [[PrecisionFStrike stupid-ass]] decision, I have chosen to ignore it."''

->'''Nanny Ogg''': Ah well, see, there's another rule. A more important rule. And Esme's followed it all her life?

-->--'''[[SamuelLJackson Nick Fury]]''', ''Film/TheAvengers''

-->--''StarTrekFirstContact''

->--'''FranklinRoosevelt'''

->--''TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn''