History Quotes / ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight

->'''Shuichi:''' '' I....REFUSE to vote.
->'''Maki:''' '' ....refuse to vote...?
->'''Keebo:''' '' Monokuma says if we don't vote, we'll be killed for breaking the rules!
->'''Shuichi:''' '' I know. That's why I'm doing it. If this ends without a single vote being cast for hope or despair… The audience would hate it. They’d never accept an ending like that… So I abstain! I refuse to give the outside world the ending it wants!

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->'''Shuichi:''' '' I know. That's why I'm doing it.

->'''Hutchinson:''' Are you mad? You speak treason.\\
'''Doctor:''' [[InsultBackfire Fluently!]]
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS21E2TheAwakening}} "The Awakening"]]

->'''Dr. Franklin''': It won't be admissible in court.\\
'''Delenn''': There are ''higher'' courts, Steven. Surely we will find justice in one of them.
-->-- ''Series/BabylonFive'', "The Paragon of Animals"

->'''Uhura:''' Captain, I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to put back to Spacedock immediately [[TurnInYourBadge to be decommissioned.]]\\
'''Spock:''' If I were human, I believe my response would be "go to Hell." [beat] If I were human.
-->-- ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''

->'''Sisko:''' Mr Odo, you're not going to take the law into your own hands.\\
'''Odo:''' The "law"? Laws change [[WrittenByTheWinners depending on who's making them]]. Cardassians one day, Federation the next. But justice is justice.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "A Man Alone"

->Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain Reason, and not by Popes and Councils, who have so often contradicted themselves. My conscience is captive to the Word of God. To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. I cannot and I will not recant. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.
-->--Reformer '''Martin Luther''' in his trial at the Imperial Diet of Worms.

->[[Music/FrankSinatra Sinatra]] had indeed been active in left-wing (by American standards) activities. In 1946 he blasted [[UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco Franco]]...In 1948 he supported Henry Wallace against the proto-[=McCarthyite=] UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman. Undeterred by the harm to his career, Sinatra ran a letter to the then liberal ''New Republic'' imploring Henry Wallace, as heir to [[UsefulNotes/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.
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal'''

->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 [[TheSvengali 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.\\\
He died of a heart attack in 1997, a year before I left the Balkans. His loss for Serbia was tremendous, for with him went one of the few remaining moral voices in the region.
-->--'''Chris Hedges''' on Prof. Miladin Zivotic, Serbian anti-fascist

!!!Reviews
->I wanted Frank Black to be heroic in a way that men are not allowed to be heroic. There’s a line in an episode coming up where he says, “Somehow, we can’t do the right thing anymore, because to involve yourself in somebody else’s problems is to needlessly invite them on yourself.” And I think that’s become the world we live in. It’s frightening. You cannot reach out. You can’t do anything truly altruistic anymore without taking into consideration, first of all, [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope the legal consequences.]] The question is: how can we act heroically? How can you reach out and help someone?
-->--'''Chris Carter''' on ''Series/Millennium1996''

->...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''

->The Smoking Man [[BondVillainStupidity doesn’t want Mulder killed]] because they would risk turning his work into a crusade, but by taking Scully away from him in such a soul crushing way they have sent him a warning to do as he’s told. Unfortunately they don’t understand quite who they are dealing with. Mulder is not the sort of man who is told how to behave and will be off chasing the next X-File as soon as possible. And shagging vampires.
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/little-green-men-written-by-glen-morgan.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles''

-->--'''Chris Carter''' on ''Series/{{Millennium}}''

'''Bailey:''' Usually, you'd have to go through the station's security administration to reactivate your [=IDs=]. Then to Customs and Immigration to regain access to the Citadel itself. And probably a stop by the treasury. [[ShoutOut "Spending a year dead"]] [[Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse is a popular tax dodge]]. But I can see your a busy man. So how about I just press this button here, and we'll call it done?\\

-->-- '''Captain America''', ''ComicBook/DevilsReignMarvel''

->'''Del Rio:''' Infinity cannot handle that kind of punishment. Not again.\\
'''Cortana:''' This isn't about us or this ship anymore.\\
'''John-117:''' Sir, we've seen what the Didact is capable of. If we let him leave this world, humanity will be at risk.\\
'''Del Rio:''' Look. I understand what you think you saw-\\
'''Cortana:''' Think?\\
'''John-117:''' With all due respect, sir, I know what I saw.\\
'''Del Rio:''' And with all due respect to you, Soldier, I'm not willing to jeopardize my ship because of the hallucinations of an aging Spartan and his malfunctioning AI.\\
'''Lasky:''' Sir - what if he's right?\\
'''Del Rio:''' Nav - as soon as we know we're airtight, I want a course laid in to Carinae Station. Comm, prepare a warning beacon.\\
'''Cortana:''' I will not allow you to… leave! This! Planet!\\

->''"The Sergeant, a shaken man, returned babbling about what had happened. Realizing the full danger of the situation, decided he had only one means left to stop the monster: Grenades. Now Bradford made a drastic move. Acting on his superior authority, he forbade Caldwell to destroy the creature. The Colonel, more concerned with saving human lives than advancing Science, told Bradford to go to Hell."''

'''[[TheSpock Data]]:''' Captain, I believe I speak for everyone here, sir, when I say... [[SophisticatedAsHell "to]] ''[[SophisticatedAsHell hell]]'' [[SophisticatedAsHell with our orders"]].

->'''Sulu:''' You'll find that more happens on the bridge of a starship than just carrying out orders and observing regulations. [[TrueCompanions There is a sense of loyalty to the men and women you serve with; a sense of family]]. Those two men on trial... I served with them for a long time. I owe them my life a dozen times over. And right now they're in trouble, and I'm going to help them; let the regulations be damned.
->'''Tuvok:''' Sir, that is a most illogical line of reasoning.
->'''Sulu:''' You better believe it. Helm, engage!

->'''Sokka''': The [[[TheEmpire Fire Nation]]] army's gonna blame the villagers. They're headed there right now to get revenge.
->'''Katara''': What was I supposed to do?
->'''Sokka''': Leave! Do nothing!
->'''Katara''': ...no. I will never ''ever'' turn my back on people who need me. [[TheDeterminator I'm going to go down to the village, and I'm going to do whatever I can]].

-- ''"When that day was over, and we'd saved all that we could,\\

-->-- ''Discworld/WyrdSisters''

''''Zael:''' See?\\

-->''Literature/{{Ravenor}} Returned''

'''Renate:''' We're supposed to be back in Ashland by noon, and it's almost eleven-thirty now. We're doing some backstage tour meet and greet thingie-whatsis. [The Chaperones] are going to freak if we're gone for the entire day and then miss ''Lysistrata'' on top of it. And my parents will ground the crap out of me. And [Portland]'s what, a four and a half hour drive from here, if we don't hit major traffic?\\

'''Eroica:''' [[TheRunaway For smuggling you into Portland?]] Oh, I'll totally get grounded for that. Probably won't see my car keys for a month, at least. My dad's not ''that'' lienent. But it's still nothing compared to what your parents plan to do to you.