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2->'''Nikolai:''' [[{{Pun}} Sucking]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent the life out of them]]'s a pretty extreme policy for dealing with unemployment.\
3'''Camilla:''' It keeps them off the streets.
4-->-- ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'', "The Cadre Infernale"
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7->''"Grab your guns, boys! Grab your fucking guns! We got homeless to kill, so let's go make some dead bodies!"''
8-->-- '''The Chief of Police''', ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun''
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10->''The underprivileged are beating our goddamned brains out. You know what I say? Stick them in concentration camps, that's what I say.''
11-->--'''Sam Kreutzer''', ''Film/DeathWish''
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14->'''Sir Billiam III:''' Oh, you see, during my– in my travels, I found this mansion and it's actually a breeding ground for [[AlienKudzu this mysterious Egg]]. And so I– so I renovated the mansion, I built around it, and in my spare time, I feed poor people to the Egg. The Egg demands poor people... as nourishment.\
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16'''Sir Billiam III:''' It's okay, Karl, you're a Minecraft [=YouTuber=], alright? [[BotanicalAbomination The Egg]] only eats ''poor'' people!\
17'''Karl:''' Oh! ''[turns around to run for the door]''\
18'''Sir Billiam III:''' I didn't tell you this, but all the guys I invited to this party were actually only ''upper middle class!''
19-->-- ''[[WebVideo/DreamSMP Tales From the SMP]]'', "The Masquerade"
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22->'''Ebenezer Scrooge:''' I help to support the establishments I have mentioned. They cost enough, and those who are badly off must go there.\
23'''1st Benefactor:''' Many ''can't'' go there--!\
24'''2nd Benefactor:''' And some would rather die.\
25'''Scrooge:''' If they would rather die, they'd better do it and decrease the surplus population.
26-->-- ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (1951)
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28->'''Oscar:''' Sir, if I may offer my humble opinion. Producing just ''one'' of these golden statues has placed a heavy burden upon the residents of your domain. [[CapturedByCannibals I've heard it's not uncommon for them to eat the flesh of passing travelers or their own relatives to stave off starvation.]] If we're to try and create four ''more'' statues while they're in that state then-\
29'''Duke Oslo El Gustav:''' Some people would perish. Is that your concern?\
30'''Oscar:''' Well, yes sir.\
31'''Duke Oslo El Gustav:''' [[TheCaligula That would be acceptable.]] Knights prove their loyalty to his Majesty by taking up arms on his behalf. Similarly, among the upper class the Nobles prove their loyalty through proper governance of the lands they oversee. So then you may ask, how is it possible for lowborn peasants to prove their loyalty? There can be only one answer: ''[[InsaneTrollLogic only through dying for his Majesty!]]'' Hopefully this is clear to you now, Oscar.
32-->-- ''Literature/HighSchoolProdigiesHaveItEasyEvenInAnotherWorld''
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34->''My friends, I think we can agree that [[OverpopulationCrisis our problem]] — our collective problem — is intensifying around the world. You only need to look outside these very walls for the evidence. The breeding rate has not decreased, in spite of severe austerity measures. Or perhaps because of them. After all, what else is left for these people to do?''\
35''As the masses grow, so too does the threat. Tonight, we sit in privilege, as did the Qin dynasty, the French Court, the Russian czars. Unassailable. Or so they thought. Until — one after the other — they awoke to the sounds of [[EatTheRich the rabble at their gates]].''\
36''Tonight, the people who contribute to the progress of the world must find the strength to move against those who add nothing. If we do not act soon, we may not have time to act at all. Those of us in this room must decide — and the moment has come. We have [[UniversalPoison the method]]. Do we have the nerve?''
37--> '''[[PresidentForLife World President]] Gismonde''', ''Literature/TheShadow'' (Patterson novel)
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39[[AC:LiveActionTelevision]]
40->''"Uh... you know, Diane, I had a notion the other day... I-I-I was thinking someone should get a group together, uh, with guns to sweep out those ghettos!"''
41-->-- '''Creator/WillFerrell''', "[[http://bcmoney-mobiletv.com/view/371/Will%20Ferrell:%20Wake%20up%20and%20SMILE/ Wake Up & Smile]]", ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''
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43->'''Doctor:''' But what of the lesser intellects? Or will they be left to rot?\
44'''Davros:''' You should know me better than that, Doctor. I never waste a valuable commodity. The humanoid form makes [[HumanResources an excellent concentrated protein]]. This part of the galaxy is developing quickly. Famine ''was'' one of its major problems.
45-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]"
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47->'''Chris Brynner:''' But don't worry, your friends are fine. That's the whole point of [[FantasticGhetto the Sanctuary]]. To give people in trouble food and a place to stay.\
48'''Dax:''' If that's all it's for, then [[{{Newspeak}} why is there a wall around it]]?
49-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E11PastTensePartI Past Tense Pt. 1]]"
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51->''"Well, I think they should attack the lower classes, er, first with bombs, and rockets destroying their homes, and then when they run helpless into the streets, er, mowing them down with machine guns. Er, and then of course releasing the vultures. I know these views aren't popular, but I have never courted popularity."''
52-->-- '''Stockbroker''', ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''
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54->'''[[ScholarshipStudent Smethwick]]:''' No ''pleeeaase'', let me go! I'm sorry for whatever I've done. I'm sorry. What did I do? Tell me! What did I do?
55->'''The Headmaster:''' You, Smethwick, were born into the wrong class.
56-->-- ''The Ritual Of The Bones'', by Creator/JohnConnolly
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59->''"No-one misses the poor. Round up some orphans and the world will thank you for it. Disappear a whore and a gentleman applauds you. Cull a beggar and a lady walks safely again."''
60-->-- '''Oswald Mandus''', ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''
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62->''My Poverty Eradication Plan was meant to bring prosperity to the City, to rid us of those scoundrels who waste their days in filth and drink, without homes or occupations other than to beg for the coin for which the rest of us toil. And it was a simple plan – bring the disease bearing rats from the Pandyssian Continent, and let them take care of the poor for us.''
63-->-- '''Hiram Burrows''', ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}''
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66->''We know of your PROCOMMUNIST attitude...We know by experience that all labor organizations and cooperatives always fall into the power of Communist Leaders infiltrated into them. We have the organization and the force to prevent this from happening again... There are THIRTY THOUSAND CLANDESTINE PEASANT GRAVES TO BEAR WITNESS....''
67-->-- '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano_Blanca Mano Blanca]]''', in a mimeographed letter sent to Guatemala City cooperatives
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69->''It's our program, you understand, to exterminate one-third of the male population of Spain. That will purge the country and we will be rid of the proletariat. It's sound economically too. Never have any more unemployment in Spain, you understand.''
70-->--'''Count Gonzalo de Aguilera''' to Associated Press journalist Charles Foltz (1939)
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72->''A chap who squats down on his knees to clean your boots at a café or in the street is bound to be a Communist, so why not shoot him right away and be done with it? No need for a trial - his guilt is self-evident in his profession.''
73-->--'''Count Gonzalo de Aguilera''' to British volunteer Peter Kamp
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75->''Had we no sewers in Madrid, Barcelona, and Bilbao, all these Red leaders would have died in their infancy instead of exciting the rabble and causing good Spanish blood to flow. When the war is over, we should destroy the sewers. The perfect birth control for Spain is the birth control God intended us to have. Sewers are a luxury to be reserved for those who deserve them, the leaders of Spain, not the slave stock.''
76-->--'''Count Gonzalo de Aguilera''' to Associated Press journalist Charles Foltz (1939)
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