Line #2 Quotes/ArmiesAreEvil


1	!!AnimeAndManga
2	-> ''“An army is a tool for violence. There are two types of violence. Violence as a means of control, and that as a means of liberation. What [[TheFederation the Free Planets Alliance]] has that is called the National Army is an example of the former. Sorry, but history does not lie. When the government clashes with public opinion, the military rarely sides with the people. In every age of history, they form a power structure and control the people with violence.”''
3	-->-- ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', '''Yang Wenli''' explaining the purpose of military power.
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5	!!{{Film}} -- Live-Action
6	->'''Narrator''': Democracy and humanitarianism have always been hallmarks of the British Army.\
7	'''Sergeant-Major''': Rubbish!
8	-->-- ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''
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10	->'''Reporter''': Some say the bugs were provoked by the intrusion of humans into their natural habitat; that a "live and let live" policy is preferable to war with the bugs.\
11	'''Johnny Rico''': Let me tell you something: I'm from Buenos Aires and I say KILL 'EM ALL!
12	-->-- ''Film/StarshipTroopers''
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14	->'''Carol:''' Dr. Frankin, you have to stop them!\
15	'''Professor:''' I'll try, Carol. But when a white coat goes up against a five-star uniform...
16	-->-- '''[[Film/{{Matinee}} MANT!]]'''
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18	!!{{Literature}}
19	->''The military was growing increasingly antagonistic to the science branch. And vice versa. The military wanted to slash and burn. The science teams wanted to study. Myself? I was getting very schizophrenic. I could see both sides of the argument. I was a scientific advisor attached to the military, except when I was a soldier sent on a scientific mission.''
20	-->-- '''Jim [=McCarthy=]''', ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''.
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22	->Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains ...and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. “You call that organization?” he had inquired. “You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency — a kind of seventh-millennium steam engine! With such a rigid and fragile structure what could be done that was worth doing?” This had given Atro a chance to argue the worth of warfare as the breeder of courage and manliness and the weeder-out of the unfit, but the very line of his argument had forced him to concede the effectiveness of guerrillas, organized from below, self-disciplined. “But that only works when the people think they're fighting for something of their own — you know, their homes, or some notion or other,” the old man had said. Shevek had dropped the argument. He now continued it, in the darkening basement among the stacked crates of unlabeled chemicals. He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.
23	-->-- ''Literature/TheDispossessed''
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25	!!LiveActionTV
26	->'''Lt. Blue:''' You don't like soldiers much, do you?\
27	'''Doctor:''' You don't need to be liked, [[GunboatDiplomacy you've got all the guns.]]
28	-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek "Into the Dalek"]]
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30	!!{{Music}}
31	->''Yes I am that cheap, that killing machine, I feed that need, I serve\
32	Show me the enemy and I'm readily steppin' to any Native feeling brave, wanna claim that turf?\
33	Burn this town; write my name in the dirt\
34	I'm a space invader, see me work\
35	Give no quarter, scorch the earth\
36	Soldier boy - I told ya boy - Your home's destroyed, my walk is mean''
37	-->-- '''Scroobius Pip feat B Dolan''', "Soldier Boy (Kill 'Em)"
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39	!!{{Tabletop Game}}s
40	->''"Over half a million fighting men and thirty thousand tanks and artillery pieces are mine to command. Emperor show mercy to the fool that stands against me, for I shall not."''
41	-->-- '''Warmaster Demetrius''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
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43	!!{{Video Game}}s
44	->"WHEN WE HUNT WE KILL. NO ONE IS SAFE, NOTHING IS SACRED. WE ARE BLACKWATCH, WE ARE THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE. WE WILL BURN OUR OWN TO HOLD THE REDLINE. IT IS THE LAST LINE TO EVER HOLD."
45	-->-- '''Creed of the Blackwatch,''' ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''
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47	!!WebAnimation
48	->''"A guardian is a symbol of comfort, but an army is a symbol of conflict. There's an energy in the air now, a question in the back of everyone's minds: If ''this'' is the size of our defenses, what is it we're expecting to fight?"''
49	-->-- '''Professor Ozpin''' to '''James Ironwood''', ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''
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51	!!WebOriginal
52	->''In the worst days of the UNIT era there was at least a sense of tension between the Doctor and UNIT... Because the fact of the matter is that the military is, by definition, a tool of establishment power that prioritizes brute force and is organized according to an authoritarian focus on conformity for its own sake. There’s no way for the military to be anything else. This isn’t a statement of pacifist belief or anything along those lines -- it’s simply an acknowledgment of how an organization like the military needs to function. And thus the Doctor -- mercurial, anarchistic, and intellectual -- is at the core of his concept at least mildly hostile to the military. That doesn’t mean the Doctor is a pacifist. That doesn’t mean the Doctor must always oppose the military. But it does mean that using ''Doctor Who'' [[DarkerAndEdgier to blindly and uncritically valorize the military]] is deeply problematic.''
53	-->-- '''El Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/03/pathetic-bunch-of-tin-soldiers.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]])
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55	!!RealLife
56	->''...I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding. For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.''
57	-->-- '''Creator/KurtVonnegut'''
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59	->"My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate, nothing more."
60	-->--'''Hermann Göring'''
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62	->''The genocide and gendercidal atrocities were also perpetrated by lower-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers. These "willing executioners" were fueled by an abiding anti-Bengali racism, especially against the Hindu minority. "Bengalis were often compared with monkeys and chickens. Said General Niazi, 'It was a low lying land of low lying people.' The Hindus among the Bengalis were as Jews to the Nazis: scum and vermin that [should] best be exterminated. As to the Moslem Bengalis, they were to live only on the sufferance of the soldiers: any infraction, any suspicion cast on them, any need for reprisal, could mean their death. And the soldiers were free to kill at will. The journalist Dan Coggin quoted one Pakistani captain as telling him, "We can kill anyone for anything. We are accountable to no one." This is the arrogance of Power.''
63	-->--'''Death by government''', R.J. Rummel (1994)
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65	->''I have witnessed the brutality of "kill and burn missions" as the army units, after clearing out the rebels, pursued the pogrom in the towns and villages. I have seen whole villages devastated by "punitive action". And in the officer's mess at night I have listened incredulously as otherwise brave and honourable men proudly chewed over the day's kill. "How many did you get?" The answers are seared in my memory.''
66	-->--'''Anthony Mascarenhas'''
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68	->''“That this social order with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows, armies, and wars is necessary to society; that still greater disaster would ensue if this organization were destroyed; all this is said only by those who profit by this organization, while those who suffer from it – and they are ten times as numerous – think and say quite the contrary.”''
69	-->-- '''Creator/LeoTolstoy,''' ''The Kingdom of God is Within You''
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