Line #33 Quotes/TheNeedsOfTheMany


1	[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
2	->''"There will always be some that cannot be saved. It is impossible to save everyone. If I have to lose five hundred to earn one thousand, I will abandon one hundred and save the lives of nine hundred. That is the most efficient method. That is the [[TragicDream ideal]]..."''
3	-->-- '''Kiritsugu Emiya''', ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''
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5	[[AC:Audio Plays]]
6	->'''Lucie:''' Doctor, why didn't you press that button? I mean, one life to save millions? It makes sense.\
7	'''The Doctor:''' Because... I used to be that guy.\
8	'''Lucie:''' You mean, you're the Monk?! He was you all along?\
9	'''The Doctor:''' No, but not far off. I was once a man with a masterplan. I'd seek out injustices, topple governments, all in the name of the greater good. I started [[ColdEquation doing the maths, you see]]...\
10	'''Lucie:''' The maths?\
11	'''The Doctor:''' This is how evil starts, with the belief that the ends justify the means. But once you start down that road, there's no turning back. What if you can save a million lives, but you have to let ten people die, or a hundred, or a hundred thousand? Where do you stop?
12	-->-- ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS4E6TheResurrectionOfMars The Resurrection of Mars]]", the Eighth Doctor does some reflection on the darker sides of his seventh incarnation.
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14	[[AC:Comic Books]]
15	->Look, my job isn't to make everything beautiful. My job isn't to make living life a good time. My job is to keep the majority of people in this country alive. That's it. If fifty-one percent eat a meal tomorrow and forty-nine percent don't, I've done my job. That is the absolute fucking limit of what can be done. Anyone who says otherwise is a con artist. My job is just to keep things the way they are. Everyone stays the same. I do the job. I keep the money coming. I provide the television and a few spare dollars and space for a fuck or two. You might not like that. You might not think that's the way a President should behave. But, you know... that's fucking tough.
16	-->-- '''President "The Beast"''', ''{{ComicBook/Transmetropolitan}}''
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18	[[AC:Fan Works]]
19	->'''[[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El]]:''' (shaking her head) Oh, Dev. I thought I knew you better than that. I thought you knew me better than that. If we don't step in to save people from the evil we're fighting, than what in Sheol are we fighting it for?\
20	'''Dev-Em:''' Kara, you ever have a chance to read military theory and / or history? In case you don't know, commanders have to make decisions that will endanger some innocents, perhaps even kill them--\
21	'''Kara:''' Not me. Not ever.\
22	'''Dev:''' --Perhaps even kill them, to save the greater number and achieve the greater objective. You have to hold to the greater objective. You simply have to. There is no escaping that fact.
23	-->-- ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''
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25	->"He said the needs of the many must outweigh the needs of the few."\
26	"They always say things like that," muttered Nee'Lix. "Funny how the people who make these decisions are never among the few."
27	-->-- ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''
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29	[[AC:Film]]
30	->"''Sometimes, one must be sacrificed for the good of many.''"
31	-->-- '''1''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}''
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33	->'''Spock:''' Don't grieve, Admiral. It is logical. [[TropeNamer The needs of the many]]...outweigh...\
34	'''Kirk:''' The needs of the few...\
35	'''Spock:''' Or the one.
36	-->-- ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''
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38	->''"In the grand calculus of the multiverse, their sacrifice means infinitely more than their lives."''
39	-->-- '''Stephen Strange''', ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''
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41	->''"How does one weigh human life?"''
42	-->-- '''The President''', ''Film/TheRock''
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44	[[AC:Literature]]
45	->''"To save a family, abandon a man; to save the village, abandon a family; to save the country, abandon a village; to save the soul, abandon the earth."''
46	-->-- '''Vidura quoting Kavya''', ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}''
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48	->Cassie put a hand on my arm. "Marco, you know we'll try to help your mother, in whatever way we can."\
49	"She's only one person." [[DontYouDarePityMe I shrugged off her hand and stood up]]. "And we're supposed to be saving the world, right?"\
50	It was one of the lines I'd practiced the night before. It sounded more bitter and less cool and calm and in control than I wanted.
51	-->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #30: The Reunion''
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53	->'''Agnieszka:''' If it were my mother--I'd try anything too.\
54	'''Alosha:''' Then you'd be behaving like a child instead of a prince.
55	-->-- ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}''
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57	[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
58	->''"Smallville needs you more than I do, [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Clark]], go. (''he hesitates'') GO!"''
59	-->-- '''Chloe Sullivan''', ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', "Arrival"
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61	->'''Clark:''' What if something goes wrong? I don't want to leave you [[WatchingTroyBurn here]].\
62	'''Chloe:''' You have to. (''Clark turns to leave'')\
63	'''Chloe:''' Clark... I don't know if I'm ever gonna see you again. (Cue [[TheBigDamnKiss Big Damn]] NowOrNeverKiss)
64	-->-- ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', "Vessel"
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66	->'''[[TheSmartGirl Chloe]] [[PlatonicLifePartners Sullivan]]''': Thanks for not giving up on [[ApocalypseMaiden me]]... I just hope that if it turned out that there was [[SadisticChoice no other choice]], you would choose to do the right thing... To [[IDidWhatIHadToDo do what's best for the world]]... and not for me. [[TheHeart Know that I'd understand.]]\
67	'''[[{{Franchise/Superman}} Clark Kent]]''': [[DefiedTrope Well, as long as]] [[TheCape I'm around]], that's never gonna happen.
68	-->-- ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', "Legion"
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70	->''"Clark, you're not here to save one person, you're here to save all of us."''
71	-->-- '''Chloe Sullivan''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Beast"
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73	->'''Chloe:''' I must have thrown a million [[KryptoniteFactor green rocks]] away and I've never really saved you. [[MoreExpendableThanYou Now, I can.]]\
74	'''Clark:''' [[BeingGoodSucks Chloe, listen to me, this is your life that we're talking about. Don't do this!]]\
75	'''Chloe:''' Clark, if there's one lesson I've learned from [[TheCape you]], it's that [[TearJerker choosing the greater good is never a sacrifice.]]
76	-->-- ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Beast"
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78	->''"Some must be sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because, if we fail in this, then ''none'' of us will be saved."''
79	-->-- '''Image of G'Kar's father''', ''Series/BabylonFive'', "Dust to Dust"
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81	->''"We had to choose between the lives of millions...and the lives of ''billions''. Of ''entire planets''."''
82	-->-- '''Delenn''', ''Series/BabylonFive'', "Ship of Tears"
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84	->'''Palindrome:''' Of course it would mean certain death for everyone on board.\
85	'''The Head:''' This is a tough one, Palindrome. But as you know, one of the responsibilities of those in charge is to order the sacrifice of the few, for the sake of the many.\
86	'''Palindrome:''' Yes, sir.\
87	'''The Head:''' Particularly when [[ItsAllAboutMe those in charge, are among the many]].
88	-->-- ''Series/{{Quark}}''
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90	->'''Ser Otto Hightower:''' "No king has ever lived that hasn't had to forfeit the lives of a few to protect the many."
91	-->-- ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon''
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93	->'''Bryan:''' The director needs to be fired. I hate saying that anybody needs to lose their job...\
94	'''Vinny:''' I would say he needs to be kicked in the balls and then fired.\
95	'''Bryan:''' This man needs to be fired for seriously the good of Wrestling/{{TNA}}. Do it, I mean quit. If you're the director of TNA and you're listening to this right now, quit. Do it for the good of the business. Don't be selfish, don't think about just yourself and your family. Think about all these other people and their families. Just quit for the good of the business because you suck and you're hurting the product, horribly!
96	-->-- ''[[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter The Bryan And Vinny Show]]'', ''Slammiversary 2007''
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98	->'''Gunn:''' Those men you sent to [[WeNeedADistraction create a diversion]] are going to get killed.\
99	'''Wesley:''' Yes, they are. (''{{beat}}'') You try not to get anybody killed, you wind up getting everybody killed.
100	-->-- ''Series/{{Angel}}'', "Theres No Place Like Plrtz Glrb"
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102	->'''Eun-hee:''' You're a firefighter. And I'm a politician. Do you know when it's the hardest for people like us? Right now. Because we have to save most people, not the people most precious to us.
103	-->-- ''Series/AllOfUsAreDead''
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105	[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
106	->''"A thousand fibres connect each of us with our fellow Tau and along those fibres our deeds run as causes which come back to us as effects. Everything we must do must be in furtherance of the Greater Good lest we return to the Mont'au, the Terror."''
107	-->-- Tau commander [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Kais]], ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
108
109	->''For the Greater Good!''
110	-->-- Tau CatchPhrase and battlecry, ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
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112	[[AC:Video Games]]
113	->'''Stalrag:''' Wait a second, Tallin. Are you saying that we should abandon our homeland to these wretched mages?!\
114	'''Tallin:''' Chief Stalrag, it is said that to save a family, we should be willing to sacrifice one person; to save a town we should be willing to sacrifice a family; and to save a nation we should be willing to sacrifice a town. Now, Stalrag, it is up to you. Do you want to save Knalga or not?
115	-->-- ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'', ''Northern Rebirth'',
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117	->'''Garrus:''' Suppose that's what it is going to take, Shepard. The ruthless calculus of war: 10 billion people over here die, so 20 billion over there can live. Are we up for that? Are you?\
118	'''Shepard:''' If all life in the galaxy vanishes because we hesitate, what choice do we have?\
119	'''Garrus:''' ''(Sighs)'' This is going to be a rough war.
120	-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''
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122	->''"And I will watch over the ones who live on. Those who carry the memory of the wo/man I once was. The wo/man who gave up her/his life to become the one who could save the many."''
123	-->-- '''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''[[labelnote:*]]Paragon, Control Ending[[/labelnote]]
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125	[[AC:Webcomics]]
126	->''"How the worth of a few lives pales before such greater goods! What is three, two lives, ''one'' life weighed against the world?! The world is nothing! ''Nothing!'' Why couldn't we see this, you and I?! We burn the present for the sake of a brighter future and [[DeconstructedTrope act surprised when all it holds is ash]]!"''
127	-->-- '''Forge''' to Spender, ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'', [[https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-4-page-89 Chapter 4 Page 89]]
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129	[[AC:Western Animation]]
130	->'''Jim:''' You're worse than Gunmar. At least he doesn't pretend to care about the world.\
131	'''Merlin:''' I care. I do. I just see the bigger picture.
132	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'', "A House Divided"
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134	->'''Fry''': You little runts froze me! You took away my life!\
135	'''Nibbler''': We had no choice! You were the only one who could help us. What is one life weighed against the entire universe?\
136	'''Fry''': But it was ''my'' life.
137	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E10TheWhyOfFry The Why of Fry]]"
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