History Quotes / WellIntentionedExtremist

->'''"There cannot be peace without first a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace."''

-->'''[[PlayerCharacter The Warrior of Light''' on '''Archbishop Thordan VII''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''

->''Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.''
-->--'''Thomas Sowell'''

->"To me, being willing to do whatever it takes--the "ends justifies the means" mentality... '''''That''' is evil'', in my opinion. It doesn't matter if your goals are noble or if you [don't have] an "evil goal" in mind. If you are willing to do ''whatever it takes''; hurt whoever you need to; crawl over and stop whoever you need to on the way up to that goal, that makes you evil, in my opinion. You need to have ''ethics'' that guide how you get to where you're going [in order] to not be considered a villain or villainess or evil or whatever. [...] There are very few evil people [out there] who ''believe'' they're evil; they think they're doing the right thing; they think they're in [[TheHerosJourney a hero's journey that they're the center of]], and it's always interesting when you can actually find some common ground between what the villain wants and what the hero wants--like, [[NotSoDifferent they both want the same thing; they both have the same vision of what's best]]. But again, usually, the villain is willing to do whatever it takes, which is: 'I'm willing to harm to reach that goal.' Whereas the hero says: 'No! We are '''not''' going to abandon our ethics in order to get the desired result."

->"To me, being willing to do whatever it takes--the "ends justifies the means" mentality (which I think is called consequentialism)...'''That''' ''is evil'', in my opinion. It doesn't matter if your goals are noble or if you [don't have] an "evil goal" in mind. If you are willing to do ''whatever it takes''; hurt whoever you need to; crawl over and stop whoever you need to on the way up to that goal, that makes you evil, in my opinion. You need to have ''ethics'' that guide how you get to where you're going [in order] to not be considered a villain or villainess or evil or whatever. [...] There are very few evil people [out there] who ''believe'' they're evil; they think they're doing the right thing; they think they're in [[TheHerosJourney a hero's journey that they're the center of]], and it's always interesting when you can actually find some common ground between what the villain wants and what the hero wants--like, [[NotSoDifferent they both want the same thing; they both have the same vision of what's best]]. But again, usually, the villain is willing to do whatever it takes, which is: 'I'm willing to harm to reach that goal.' Whereas the hero says: 'No! We are '''not''' going to abandon our ethics in order to get the desired result."

-->-- '''George Santayana'''

[[folder: Toys]]

-->-- Toa Tuyet, ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''

->My paternal grandfather died as many good Greeks did, attempting to kill his mortal enemy, the old [[ArchNemesis Baron Vladimir Harkonnen]]. Both of them rest uncomfortably now in my [[GeneticMemory ancestral memories]]. Even [[DarkMessiah my father]] is not content. [[GodEmperor I have done what he feared to do]] and now his shade must share in the consequences.
->The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. [[{{Seers}} We who have prescience]], we who know the pitfalls in our human futures, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility this has always been our responsibility]].

-->-- '''Discord''' explaining how he's responsible for the events of season 9 of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

->''"I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!"''