History Quotes / VillainWithGoodPublicity

->''[[EvilOldFolks Mrs Johnson]] has been [[WouldHurtAChild at this game]] [[ImmortalityImmorality for longer than anyone realizes]] and has built a rock-solid reputation as a harmless, helpful, grandmotherly old lady who would never hurt a fly. The kids have to keep a low profile or risk having the librarian, the principal, the cops, or their parents called on them in short order. And of course, [[AffablyEvil Mrs Johnson would volunteer to help with their community service]] so that they could all [[DeadlyEuphemism get to know one another better...]]''

->''We’ve heard conflicting reports about the fate of Creator/EllenDegeneres‘ show since ''[=BuzzFeed=] published their expose wherein current and former employees complained about a toxic environment behind the scenes, including allegations of racism, sexism, and sexual misconduct at the hands of executive producers...so in order to move forward, morale must be improved by cramming the words ''“fun”'' and ''“happy”'' down everybody’s throat like geese at a FUN! foie gras factory.''

->'''Prison:''' A fishbowl for guppies. The real sharks get to stay in the ocean, and never fall into the mariners' nets. They instead [[SleazyPolitician run for elected office]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive and make fortunes on Wall Street.]] Never do the big fish see the inside of an aquarium.

->'''188'''. I will funnel some of my ill-gotten gains into urban renewal projects. Although slums add a quaint and picturesque quality to any city, they too often contain unexpected allies for heroes.\\
'''208'''. Members of my Legion of Terror will attend seminars on Sensitivity Training. It's good public relations for them to be kind and courteous to the general population when not actively engaged in sowing chaos and destruction.

->'''Skitter:''' I'm not taking you hostage. It's really your choice how this plays out. I'm not sure if you heard me say it before, but I described you as a jury. Now it's time for you to vote.\\
'''Defiant:''' That's not how it works, Skitter!\\
'''Skitter:''' Stand if you side with me. I won't make any big speeches here. That's not who I am. I won't feed you lies or guilt you into this. It's your call.\\
''[almost one hundred students stand up and [[LostInACrowd stand with Skitter]]]''
-->-- ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/chrysalis-20-5/ Chrysalis 20.5]]

->"I've got a broker in Stockholm that's going to buy me five percent of Volvo. For the rest of my days I'm going to live off the dividends, happy in the knowledge I'm helping to make the safest automobiles in the world."

->"I've got a broker in Stockholm. Monday morning he's going to buy me five percent of Volvo. For the rest of my days I'm going to live off the dividends, secure in the knowledge I'm helping to build the safest automobiles in the world."

->"I place you in charge of Arrakis. It's yours to squeeze, as I promised. I want you to ''squeeze'', and ''squeeze'', and SQUEEZE! Give me spice! Drive them! Drive them into utter submission! And when we've crushed these people enough I'll send in ''you'', Feyd. They'll cheer you as a rescuer. Lovely Feyd. Really a lovely boy."

-> )''[[EvilInc Pentex]] has insinuated itself into every aspect of modern life: it employs untold millions and [[PhotoOpWithTheDog gives generously to selected charities, cultural events and causes]] on both sides of the traditional liberal/conservative political equation. If Pentex were to disappear overnight, there would be upheaval on Wall Street and massive unemployment, despite the long-term good that its destruction would bring. [...] Pentex, through its control of the media, has created an atmosphere in which it an its good are part of the blessed status quo: any assault on a Pentex subsidiary is twisted in the public eye, becoming a direct attack on traditional values.''

->'''Schanke''': So, when I went over to Human Touch, what did I see? An [=8x10=] of Hedges and Mother Theresa. And in the photograph, ''she's'' giving ''him'' a big hug. I mean, the guy's a saint! I doubt he's got an enemy in the world!\\

'''Stonetree''': Saints usually have more enemies than you or I. Sometimes even more skeletons in their closets. Dig deeper.

->'''Schanke''': In the photograph, Mother Theresa's hugging ''him!'' The guy's a saint!\\

'''Marbury:''' I am "John", [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Lord Marbury, Earl of Croy Marquess of Needham and Dolby, Baronet of Brycey, England's Ambassador to the United States]], and a terrorist is a terrorist even if he [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles wears a green necktie and sings Danny Boy!]]

'''Marbury:''' I am "John", [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Lord Marbury, Earl of Croy Marquess of Needham and Dolby, Baronet of Brycey England's Ambassador to the United States]], and a terrorist is a terrorist even if he [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles wears a green necktie and sings Danny Boy!]]

->[[spoiler: '''Floriana Campo:''' ]] You never liked me because you're a wanted man living in the shadows, and I am ''not.'' [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil I run my business]], and [[EvilGloating I'm being wined and dined by the city's elite]]!\\
'''Reddington:''' ''[laughs]'' I don't know how you do it - the duplicity. How does the devil in you contend with the angel? I would have kicked her out ''years'' ago.\\
[[spoiler: '''Floriana Campo:''' ]] You can learn a thing or two from me, Raymond. [[FauxAffablyEvil I'm going to kiss that sweet young FBI agent on the cheek and say, "good night,"]] and then go down to the docks and pick up my next shipment of [[SexSlave girls]].

'''Marbury:''' I am "John", [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Lord Marbury, Earl of Croy Marquess of Needham and Dolby, Baronet of Brycey England's Ambassador to the United States]], and a terrorist is a terrorist even if he [[TheTroubles wears a green necktie and sings Danny Boy!]]

-> [[EvilInc Pentex]] has insinuated itself into every aspect of modern life: it employs untold millions and [[PhotoOpWithTheDog gives generously to selected charities, cultural events and causes]] on both sides of the traditional liberal/conservative political equation. If Pentex were to disappear overnight, there would be upheaval on Wall Street and massive unemployment, despite the long-term good that its destruction would bring. [...] Pentex, through its control of the media, has created an atmosphere in which it an its good are part of the blessed status quo: any assault on a Pentex subsidiary is twisted in the public eye, becoming a direct attack on traditional values.

->[[EvilOldFolks Mrs Johnson]] has been [[WouldHurtAChild at this game]] [[ImmortalityImmorality for longer than anyone realizes]] and has built a rock-solid reputation as a harmless, helpful, grandmotherly old lady who would never hurt a fly. The kids have to keep a low profile or risk having the librarian, the principal, the cops, or their parents called on them in short order. And of course, [[AffablyEvil Mrs Johnson would volunteer to help with their community service]] so that they could all [[DeadlyEuphemism get to know one another better...]]

->Even as I write, [[TheHorde men of]] [[GrimUpNorth Norsca]] walk freely in the streets of Marienburg, [[DudeWheresMyRespect garnering greater acknowledgement than the true heroes of our empire]], and ever burrowing their way into the hearts of the foolish. Fat ladies squeal to be the first to purchase their latest pelts, gentlemen bid for the [[ArtifactOfDoom cursed armaments]] culled from their tainted earth, entertainers seek twisted creatures for the gawking of the peasantry and, most ludicrous of all, stern-faced generals do seek to secure their warriors as [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenaries]] for their wars both foreign and against our own people. Their greed for power and prestige and false worth does blind them to the evil they allow to walk among us. For the Norse do lie so well, and smile at the gaiting and prancing of those who seek to imitate them. But I understand as they do the base truth behind these idolaters do wear as lightly on their minds as they do the silk on their sleeve
->The Norse mislead us all with [[FauxAffablyEvil their smiles and pageantry]], and we will be the ones to bear the brunt of their ultimate betrayal.

->Not every [[EnfantTerrible juvenile]] [[EvilSorcerer widderslainte]] is also a juvenile delinquent. Some are model students and citizens - at least on the outside. They run straight A's in school, head clubs and other organizations, and otherwise present themselves as model citizens, even as they [[AmbitionIsEvil ruthlessly use and discard others on their climb to the top]]. Are they then any better than [[CardCarryingVillain their fellows]], who spend lunch hour tying stray cats into sacks and dumping them in rivers? Most assuredly not.
->They're more subtle, true, but not really any different. It's just that the human wreckage they leave behind generally continues functioning - [[MindRape at least on some level]].

->[[ClassicalMovieVampire Vlad]]’s popularity was assured. Here at last was a count who dealt with the bandits, lowered the taxes to practically nothing, enforced the laws, and never drunkenly ordered random executions for his amusement. He sometimes executed his rebellious liegemen, accounting for the [[DestinationDefenestration Second through Thirteenth Defenestrations of Drakenhof]], and he drove away many of the priests, but still, his people loved him.

->O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! \\

At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.

->These sad saps. They come to [[UnderwaterCity Rapture]] thinking they're gonna be captains of industry, but they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets. What an angle they gave me! [[FakeCharity I hand these mugs a cot and a bowl of soup]], and they [[UndyingLoyalty give me their lives]]. Who needs an army when I got [[NGOSuperpower Fontaine's Home for the Poor?]]

->Your powerful [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower GDI]] forces have been emasculated, and you yourself are a ''[[HeroWithBadPublicity killer of children!]]'' Now of course it's not true, but, the world only believes what the media tells them to believe... and I tell the media what to believe, it's really quite simple.

->Do you think you've won? You see, when I die, they'll [[OurFounder build a statue]]. And you? The city didn't stop for your grieving family. Because you don't matter.

-> '''Raiden:''' [[LampshadeHanging How the hell did you get elected?]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]]:''' Well, I don't write my own speeches.

-> '''[[spoiler: Game epilogue]]:''' ...[[spoiler: Korgan]] was last seen burying his [[AnAxeToGrind axe]] in the gullet of a [[ReligionOfEvil high priest of Lolth]], [[BloodKnight laughing as he struck]]. Dwarven legend immortalized the image, and his [[AxeCrazy bloodlust]] is now called a [[CrazyAwesome crusade]]. History, it seems, finds more heroes than madmen.

->Oh, yeah, they’re a cult, the [[PathOfInspiration Morninglight]]. Chat up the young and hungry, sell them on a better idea of a future. The kids we used to get coming in had the same story: with [[LightIsNotGood the sun in their eyes]], it all looked so much better than the world they came from... and everyone wants to believe they can make a difference. The lucky ones got out early. That was a couple of years ago, back when we could actually get them out. Then the cult got smart, [[ChurchOfHappyology and got Hollywood]]. They’re untouchable now they’re on the talkshow circuit. You can get away with anything if you can do it smiling on the cover of ''Heat.''

->Nobody's supposed to live [[WrongSideOfTheTracks down here]], city pissin' on us. Never dry. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ryan]] doesn't care and [[TheBarnum Fontaine]]'s a damn crook... but [[PsychoPsychologist Doctor Lamb]] cares. We're still people to her. She's offering [[MoreThanMindControl free mental counseling]] on Sundays. When I go, I get the feeling [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans she's got a plan for Rapture]]... and for me.

->They're part of a new humanitarian group called [=TerraSave=] which has a long intro in the first episode going on about how nice they are and how you should totally trust them, so I'm assuming they'll turn out to be run by the Boston kitten strangler.

->Creator/DonaldTrump, arguably the grossest person in America, gets his mug plastered on the list as well, with ''Forbes'' describing the current massive fraud suit against him as part of his "circus". OH YES, WHAT A FUN RIDE IT IS TO FUCK PEOPLE OVER.

->The guy walks in to dark, wicked music, has narrow shifty eyes, and even gives low evil mastermind laughs when he says innocuous and threatening things. ''"[[GigglingVillain Hmm-hm-hm-hm...haaa ha ha ha!!]]"'' He's SO {{OBVIOUSLY EVIL}}, and the rest of the wizards are sticking up for his reputation, stunned at the accusation that the velvet cloak-wearing weirdo with heavy eyeliner and shadowed eyes could possibly be wicked and set on world domination. I mean hello, Know Alignment spell anyone?

-> You see, uh, "Superman"...[[IOwnThisTown I own Metropolis]]. My technology built it, my will keeps it going, and nearly two-thirds of its people work for me whether they know it or not. Even you have to admit, it's a model of efficiency.

->'''Lord Marbury:''' You are honouring a man at your St. Patrick's Day Dinner allied with car bombers and murderers of British soldiers. This not to mention Irish men, women and children.\\
'''Toby Ziegler:''' Yes, sir.\\
'''Marbury:''' And you are doing it to [[{{Realpolitik}} appease Democrats from New York City and Boston]].\\
'''Toby:''' He's not being honored. He's just been given an invitation.\\
'''Marbury:''' He shouldn't be given a '''visa'''!\\

'''Marbury:''' I am "John", [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Lord Marbury, Earl of Croy Marquess of Needham and Dolby, Baronet of Brycey England's Ambassador to the United States]], and a terrorist is a terrorist even if he wears a green necktie and sings Danny Boy!

->No one with a good public reputation is actually good, Orgullo. They’re just charlatans skilled at making themselves look good. Most people are easily fooled, so we can get away with it.

->One is evil, but you can deal with him, because he [[EvenEvilHasStandards actually harbors beliefs]]. The other one will tell any lie, wear any mask, to become president, and not only that, he fucking hates you, and he's doing this just so he can [[ForTheEvulz make your lives hell]]. And who do you think they vote for? Stupid.

->May it please this honorable court, my life is an open book, I am a pillar of the church. I support all organized charities that are tax deductable. I give to all the newest and fashionable diseases.

->You saw one of London's most respected citizens, and you deliberately PUSHED him into a cage!

->I have the Americans believing I am a nice guy. In their polls, I'm more popular than [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush their President!]]

->''"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."''

->And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

->But in calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in the eyes of the law—and there lie the glory and the wonder of it! The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations—that’s the man! But so aloof is he from general suspicion, so immune from criticism, [[AffablyEvil so admirable in his management and self-effacement]], that for those very words that you have uttered he could hale you to a court and [[KarmaHoudini emerge with your year’s pension]] as a solatium for his wounded character. Is he not the celebrated author of ''The Dynamics of an Asteroid'', a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it? Is this a man to traduce? Foulmouthed doctor and slandered professor—such would be your respective roles! That’s genius, Watson.

->Shem Shem Tsien: graduate of St John's College, Cambridge; [[TheCharmer debater]], [[ProfessionalGambler gambler]], and [[TheCasanova rake]]; born the second son of the second son of the Khaygul Khan of Addeh Sikkim, a tiny tinpot nation on the edge of the British Raj. Industrialist and moderniser, favourite dinner guest of presidents and commissars alike, hunter of big game and bronze medallist at the Olympics in the foil event - would have done more, [[MasterSwordsman no doubt]], but he'd spent the preceding six days drunk in the arms of a Hollywood starlet of pneumatic and renowned athleticism. His smile shatters marriages, unfrocks nuns. As a youth, he ravished Europe and the Americas, was the darling of the society pages - and then, disaster: his father, brother and his royal master were [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch taken all in one night by a sickness which swelled the brain]], leaving Shem to look out for his beloved nephew, which he did by [[DestroyTheEvidence burning the corpses with due ceremony]] and installing the boy on the Khaygul's throne. Alas, [[BlatantLies all unforeseen and unimaginable]], a fishbone lodged in the new sovereign's throat and could not be got out, leaving the wise, educated, clubbable Shem Shem Tsien the last son of his line.

->You never learned the secret. How to be a crazy motherfucker and get away with it. [[PsychologicalProjection Everybody else does it]]. What, you didn't think they were all sane, did you? Not a one of them. They're all crazier than you and me put together. They just know how to fake it. You could too, but [[HeroWithBadPublicity you've chosen to torture all of us]] instead. [[InsaneTrollLogic That's the definition of evil right there]]: not faking it like everyone else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can't stand it when someone else lets their crazy show. It's like bugs under the skin. We have to destroy you. It's nothing personal.

->He shot at the strong and he slashed at the weak\\

"The patriot fights for his countryside!"

->If the devil himself was walking this Earth, he’d definitely be working in PR.
-->-- '''Oswald Danes''', ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay''

-->--''''SeriesForeverKnight'', "Dying to See You"

'''Toby:''' And I think we have to be careful how we use the word "terrorist"... Can I call you John?\\

->Got his [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate doctorate]] from Munich. Ahead of his time in genetics. Such the rising young star that in '39, Hitler appointed him chief physician at [[HellholePrison Dachau]], where he enjoyed a ready supply of human subjects on which to [[UnwittingTestSubject test his earliest iterations of Compound V]]... for which [[EvenEvilHasStandards we condemn in the strongest of possible terms]]. Early in '44, he felt the winds change, [[IFightForTheStrongestSide got spirited away to the Allies]]. When Oppenheimer was flailing with the bomb, Dr. Vought already had practical applications of Compound V tested in the field. Heroes like Soldier Boy, killing Germans by the dozen. So, Roosevelt pardoned him, and he became as Wonder Bread American as Disney and Edison.

->I can't stop [[CantGetInTroubleForNuthin the horrible respect]] people have for me.

->The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.

->A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.
-->-- '''Creator/AynRand''', ''The Voice of Reason''

->This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

->In the world of the wealthy, [[PetTheDog liberalism is something you do to offset your rapacious behavior in other spheres]]. It’s no coincidence that, in Weinstein’s desperate first response to [[CastingCouch the accusations against him]], he thought to promise war against the National Rifle Association and to support scholarships for women.

->If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MalcolmX''', December 13, 1964

->Got his [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate doctorate]] in Munich. Ahead of his time in genetics. So much so that in '39, Hitler appointed him chief physician at Dachau, where he enjoyed a ready supply of human subjects on which to test his earliest iterations of Compound V. For which [[EvenEvilHasStandards we condemn in the strongest of possible terms]]. Early in '44, he felt the winds change, [[IFightForTheStrongestSide got spirited away to the Allies]]. When Oppenheimer was flailing with the bomb, Dr. Vought already had practical applications of Compound V tested in the field. Heroes like Soldier Boy, killing Germans by the dozen. So, Roosevelt pardoned him, and he became as Wonder Bread American as Disney and Edison.

->'''Lex Luthor''': Nobody understands my brilliance. Why do you think that is?\\
'''Joker''': Might be because you're a super villain.\\
'''Luthor''': I love that word.\\
'''Joker''': Which one?\\
'''Luthor''': "Might".
-->--''Joker and Lex'' by Creator/BrianAzzarello

-->-- "The Black Knight", '''Music/Macabre'''