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1->''"[[BadassBoast I found Rome built of bricks. I left her clad in marble]]."''
2-->-- '''UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}''', as quoted in Suetonius's ''The Twelve Caesars''
3
4->''The unenlightened masses''\
5''They cannot make the judgment call''\
6''Give up free will forever''\
7''Their voices won't be heard at all''\
8''Display obedience''\
9''While never stepping out of line''\
10''And blindly swear allegiance''\
11''Let your country control your mind''\
12''(Let your country control your soul)''\
13''Live in ignorance''\
14''And purchase your happiness''\
15''When blood and sweat is the real cost''\
16''Thinking ceases, the truth is lost''\
17''Don’t you worry''\
18''You’ll be told exactly what to do''\
19''I give my people the lives they need''\
20''The righteous will succeed''
21-->-- '''Collective Consciousness''', theme of Metal Gear EXCELSUS, ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
22
23->''He found Russia working with wooden ploughs and left it equipped with atomic piles.''
24-->-- '''Isaac Deutscher''', "[[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]]: An Obiturary"
25
26->''"But why? ''Why'' do they still call me a warlord? And ''''mad?!'''' All I want to do is to create the perfect genetic soldier! Not for power... not for evil... but for '''good!''' Carlos Blanka will be the first of many. They shall march out of my laboratory and sweep away every adversary, every creed, every nation... until the very planet is in the loving '''[[GlovedFistOfDoom grip]]''' of the Pax Bisonica. And then peace... will reign... in the world. And all humanity... shall bow to me... in humble gratitude."''
27-->-- '''M. Bison,''' ''Film/StreetFighter (1994 film)''
28
29->''This, cruel and dispassionate prince was concerned with the ideal of the nation. Under his reign France was great and the French wretched.''
30-->-- '''Maurice Druon''', ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'', describing [[UsefulNotes/LEtatCestMoi King Philip IV "Le bel"]]
31
32->''"They are. But in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws -- the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe -- break down; beyond those metaphysical event horizons, there exist... special circumstances."''
33-->-- ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', Rasd-Coduresa Diziet Embless Sma da' Marenhide
34
35->''I have an evil plan\
36to save the world for every man,\
37and I think it's better than\
38the way it's being run\
39Oh, the groundwork's laid\
40No, don't be afraid\
41I'm sure that I can fix it\
42when I figure out the physics''
43-->-- '''Music/FiveIronFrenzy''', "My Evil Plan to Save the World"
44
45
46->''For we knew only too well:\
47Even the hatred of squalor\
48Makes the brow grow stern.\
49Even anger against injustice\
50Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we\
51Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness\
52Could not ourselves be kind.\
53But you, when at last it comes to pass\
54That man can help his fellow man,\
55Do not judge us\
56Too harshly.''
57-->-- '''Creator/BertoltBrecht''', ''To Posterity''
58
59->''I loathe your ideals. I admire your methods. If one believes one's right, one shouldn't wait to convince millions of fools, one might just as well force them.''
60-->-- '''Creator/AynRand''', ''We the Living''
61
62->'''[[KnightTemplar Justice Lord Hawkgirl]]:''' Remember when everyone ''liked'' us?\
63'''Justice Lord ComicBook/GreenLantern:''' Since when does that matter to you?\
64'''Justice Lord Hawkgirl:''' Since I started seeing the fear on everyone's face.\
65'''Justice Lord Green Lantern:''' You wanna talk about fear? When I was a kid, I went to bed every night scared that the whole world was gonna blow up. That's the way things were back then; folks just accepted it. They didn't think there could be a better way. ''[[GoneHorriblyRight But we found one]]''.
66-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E11And12ABetterWorld A Better World (Part 1)]]"
67
68->'''Justice Lord Batman:''' [[DemocracyIsBad The problem with democracy is: it doesn't keep you very safe]].\
69'''Batman:''' It has other virtues, but you seem to have forgotten them.\
70'''Justice Lord Batman:''' I didn't forget. I just chose peace and security instead.\
71'''Batman:''' You grabbed power!\
72'''Justice Lord Batman:''' [[ArmorPiercingResponse And]] ''[[ArmorPiercingResponse with]]'' [[ArmorPiercingResponse that power, we've made a world where no eight-year-old boy will]] ''[[ArmorPiercingResponse ever]]'' [[ArmorPiercingResponse lose his parents]] ''[[ArmorPiercingResponse because of some]] '''''[[ArmorPiercingResponse punk with a gun]]'''.\
73''[A clang is heard as Batman drops his Batarang, followed by a DramaticPause]''\
74'''Batman:''' ...You win.
75-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E11And12ABetterWorld A Better World (Part 2)]]"
76
77->''"Ever since I've become Fuhrer, I've done nothing but improve this country, winning wars, and exponentially expanding our territory... I think of myself as one of God's guardian angels."''
78-->-- '''King Bradley/[[spoiler:Pride]]''', ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003''
79
80->''"May the future forgive me. May history judge my actions, great or small. In the final reckoning... when I have given them paradise, and the world is free... those poor dead will not seem so many. Now, let the sky fall."''
81-->-- '''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]'''[[note]]later {{retcon}}ned to be someone else[[/note]], ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' #150
82
83->''"It is only through your toil, through your labours, through your conviction, that Albion will be transformed. Do not fear the sound you hear, the throbbing you feel beneath your feet. These sensations will soon be as familiar as your own heartbeat. And as long as your heart continues to beat, all that I require of you is obedience. Now... ''[[CompellingVoice sleep]].''"''
84-->-- '''Lord Lucien Fairfax''', ''VideoGame/FableII''
85
86->''"There is no shame in this. For a man who has done... fine works. We're building a better world. All of them... Better worlds."''
87-->-- '''[[KnightTemplar The Operative]]''', as he [[YouHaveFailedMe executes]] the head doctor of [[SchoolForScheming the Academy]], ''Film/Serenity2005''
88
89->'''The Operative:''' I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin.\
90'''Mal:''' So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so ''you'' can live in your better world?\
91'''The Operative:''' ''I'm'' not going to live there. There's no place for me there, any more than there is for you. Malcolm... I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done.
92-->-- ''Film/Serenity2005''
93
94->''"The future doesn't belong to you or me. It belongs to those who come after us. Their hands will be clean of blood; they need not know any sin, if we pay that price for them. To think that a child, like Ashu, might never again know pain! Isn't that a future worth fighting for?"''
95-->-- '''Xan Hei''', ''VideoGame/GuildWars Beyond: Winds of Change''
96
97->'''Nite Owl:''' You've killed millions!\
98'''[[spoiler:Ozymandias]]:''' To save billions.
99-->-- ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''
100
101->''"You would see all of mankind corralled into a neatly furnished prison, safe and sober, yet dulled beyond reason and sapped of all spirit."''
102-->-- '''Edward Kenway''', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag''
103
104->'''Angel:''' Thousands of people are '''''dead''''' because of what you've done!\
105'''Jasmine:''' ''[unfazed]'' And how many will die because of you? I could've stopped it, Angel. All of it. War, disease, poverty. How many precious, beautiful lives would've been saved in a handful of years? Yes, I murdered thousands -- to save ''billions''. This world is doomed to drown in its own blood now.\
106'''Angel:''' The price was too high, Jasmine. Our fate has to be our own, or we're nothing.
107-->-- ''Series/{{Angel}}'', "[[Recap/AngelS04E21PeaceOut Peace Out]]"
108
109->''I have seen them do this. I have seen them do far worse. And it is not the price we pay for peace and prosperity. It is too great a price for that.''
110-->-- ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'', by Creator/NeilGaiman
111
112->'''Man:''' How are things in Moscow?\
113'''Ninotchka:''' Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
114-->-- ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''
115
116->''"The state has always been made a hell by man's wanting to make it his heaven."''
117-->-- '''Friedrich Hölderlin'''
118
119->''"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."''
120-->-- '''Russell Baker'''
121
122->''"The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell."''
123-->-- '''Karl Popper''', philosopher, just after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII
124
125->''"Communism is based on ethical relativism and accepts no stable moral absolutes. Right and wrong are relative to the most expedient methods for dealing with class war. Communism exploits the dreadful philosophy that the end justifies the means. It enunciates movingly the theory of a classless society, but alas! its methods for achieving this noble end are all too often ignoble. Lying, violence, murder, and torture are considered to be justifiable means to achieve the millennial end. Is this an unfair indictment? Listen to the words of [[UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin Lenin]], the real tactician of Communist theory: 'We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, lawbreaking, withholding and concealing truth.' Modem history has known many tortuous nights and horror-filled days because his followers have taken this statement seriously."''
126-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr'''
127
128->''"That is what happens with projects to build model societies in other people's countries... it was preordained in that original seemingly innocuous, even idealistic phrase: '[[ExactWords a model for a new Middle East]].' The disintegration of Iraq has its roots in the ideology that demanded a tabula rasa on which to write its new story. And when no such pristine tableau presented itself, the supporters of that ideology proceeded to blast and surge and blast again in the hope of reaching that promised land."''
129-->-- '''Naomi Klein''', ''The Shock Doctrine''
130
131->''"Then I'm goose-stepping my way to utopia and you can't stop me!"''
132-->-- '''Sam''', ''Webcomic/MenInHats'' [[http://meninhats.com/d/20040206.html 2004/02/06]]
133
134->''"[[BigBrotherIsWatching In silencing talk of conflict]], Ba Sing Se remains a peaceful, orderly utopia -- the last one on Earth."''
135-->-- '''Long Feng''', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
136
137->''I'm willing to take responsibility for [[HellOnEarth the horrible events of the last twenty-four hours]], but you must understand -- our interest in [[{{Hell}} their world]] was purely for the betterment of mankind. Everything has clearly gotten out of hand, yes...but it was worth the risk, I assure you.''
138-->-- '''Dr. Samuel Hayden''', ''VideoGame/Doom2016''
139
140->''The beauty of the Onesong is beyond description: it offers us an end to conflict and misery and suffering, and it holds the promise of an [[WorldOfSilence era of peace and tranquility]]. Sadly, there are some who fight against this hallowed vision. They lash out against the agents of order with [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent tooth and claw]], doing everything in their power to rend the vision to pieces. They must be [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide purged]] if the system is to survive: this is the only way to make the beauty of Clarification a reality.''
141-->-- ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse: Apocalypse'', The Weaver Ascendant
142
143->''Centuries ago, ancient maps bore a simple legend: [[HereThereBeDragons Here There Be Monsters.]] Now [[KnightTemplar we]] have [[VanHelsingHateCrimes driven those monsters from the world]]. Five thousand years of human evolution have led us to where we are today. With technology at our command, we can realize ideals the ancient Enlightened societies could never achieve. While others may [[GoodIsOldFashioned look to the past]] or look away [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} into their own delusions]], we have built our Union while [[VisionaryVillain looking to the future]], reinforcing the collective vision of mankind. The world of tomorrow is ours to discover, and with vision and imagination, we will further the evolution of the human race. By basking in the light of reason, victory will be ours.''
144-->-- ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension -- Guide To The Technocracy''
145
146-> ''"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed."''
147-->-- '''Barry Goldwater'''
148
149->''"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"''
150-->-- '''Barry Goldwater'''
151
152->''"For the Greater Good!"''
153-->-- '''Tau''' [[PreAsskickingOneLiner battle cry]], ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
154
155->'''Elan:''' You're... you're EVIL! Aren't you? With all capital letters!\
156'''Tarquin:''' Son, labels like "good" and "evil" are just words. Words with many possible capitalizations. They're outdated concepts that do nothing but cause conflict. What I'm trying to do here is move beyond those ideas into a world where no one has any reason to fight one another. But you can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others.
157-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
158
159->'''Krennic:''' We were on the verge of greatness. We were ''this'' close to providing peace and security to the Galaxy.\
160'''Galen:''' You're confusing peace... with terror.\
161'''Krennic:''' Well, you have to start somewhere.
162-->-- ''Film/RogueOne''
163
164->'''Kovat:''' Whatever you've done, whatever the charges against you, none of that really matters in the long run.\
165'''O'Brien:''' What does matter? \
166'''Kovat:''' [[KangarooCourt This trial]] is to demonstrate the futility of behavior contrary to good order. Everyone will find it most uplifting.\
167'''O'Brien:''' Not everyone.\
168'''Kovat:''' Once again, justice will be done. Our lives will be reaffirmed, safe and secure. Here on Cardassia, all crimes are solved, all criminals are punished, all endings are happy. Even the poorest of our subjects can walk the streets in the dead of night in perfect safety. You're only one man, but your conviction will be a salutary experience for millions.
169-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E25Tribunal Tribunal]]"
170
171->''"[[NoSuchAgency We]] deal with threats to the Federation that jeopardize its very survival. If you knew how many lives we've saved, I think you'd agree that the ends do justify the means. [[TheUnfettered I'm not afraid of bending the rules every once in a while if the situation warrants it]], and [[NotSoDifferentRemark I don't think you are, either]]."''
172-->-- '''Luther Sloan''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E18Inquisition Inquisition]]"
173
174->''The Society has no aim other than the complete liberation and happiness of the masses -- i.e., of the people who live by manual labor. Convinced that their emancipation and the achievement of this happiness can only come about as a result of an all-destroying popular revolt, the Society will use all its resources and energy toward increasing and intensifying the evils and miseries of the people until at last their patience is exhausted and they are driven to a general uprising.''
175-->-- '''Sergey Nechayev''', ''Catechism of a Revolutionary'' (1869)
176
177->''People can go on about how [Elon] Musk is saving humanity's future, but they're assuming that any present-day suffering he's causing is not only worth it, but necessary. Are we sure we can't build the future without steamrolling people in the present? ''[...]'' If history has taught us anything, it's this: Anyone who assures you they're only inflicting suffering in the present in order to bring about a glorious future Utopia is about to take you down a very dark road.''
178-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-it-was-always-dumb-to-worship-elon-musk-as-savior/ Why It Was Always Dumb To Worship Elon Musk As A Savior]]"
179
180->''"His primary concern is justice. His subjects live fairly, peaceably, and one might say even well, if not for the heavy blade of the law constantly grazing the tender skin of their necks."''
181-->-- '''[[https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/king-of-swords-1-1/ Payapop Pitram]]''' on [[GodEmperor Solomon David]], ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''
182
183->''"Without [[SpiceOfLife melange]] to ignite the linear prescience of [[TheNavigator Guild Navigators]], people cross the parsecs of space only at a snail's crawl. Without melange, the [[AncientTradition Bene Gesserit]] cannot endow Truthsayers or Reverend Mothers. Without the geriatric properties of melange, people live and die according to the ancient measure -- no more than a hundred years or so. Now, the only spice is held in Guild and Bene Gesserit storehouses, a few small hoards among the remnants of the Great Houses, and my gigantic hoard which they all covet. How they would like to raid me! But they don't dare. [[IfICantHaveYou They know I would destroy it all before surrendering it]].\
184No. [[TerminallyDependentSociety They come hat in hand and petition me for melange]]. I dole it out as a reward, and hold it back as punishment. How they hate that.\
185It is my power, I tell them. It is my gift.\
186With it, I create peace. They have had more than three thousand years of Leto's Peace. It is an enforced tranquility which humankind knew only for the briefest periods before my ascendancy. Lest you have forgotten, study Leto's Peace once more in these, my journals."''
187-->-- '''Leto Atreides II''', ''Literature/GodEmperorOfDune''
188
189->'''Mr. House:''' New Vegas is more than a city -- it's the remedy to mankind's... [[AfterTheEnd derailment]]. The city's economy is a blast furnace in which can be forged the steel of a new rail line, running straight to a new horizon. What is [[TheFederation the NCR]]? A society of people desperate to experience comfort, ease, luxury... a society of ''customers.'' With all that money pouring in? Give me twenty years, and I'll reignite the high technology development sectors. ''Fifty'' years, and I'll have people in orbit. ''One hundred'' years, and my colony ships will be heading for the stars, [[ColonizedSolarSystem to search for planets]] unpolluted by the wrath and folly of a bygone generation.\
190'''The Courier:''' In the meantime, you'd rule Vegas as some kind of dictator?\
191'''House:''' [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord I prefer the term "autocrat"]]. I would rule as a chief executive. I would not answer to a board of directors or any other entity -- nothing to impede progress. [[DemocracyIsBad If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows]].
192-->-- ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''
193
194->''Once more, [[ClassicalMovieVampire Vlad]] looked westward. Here, the nobles of the Empire squabbled and fought, allowing anarchy to reign and their people to die in famine and pointless war. Here, [[TheCycleOfEmpires the greatest nation of the Old World rotted from within]], soon to collapse under its own rancid dilapidation.\
195Vlad would not allow that to happen. [[RepressiveButEfficient He would bring order where now there was mayhem]]. He would bring leadership where now there was weakness. [[TheNecrocracy Under his rule]], the Empire would be united forever. With Vlad as its [[ImmortalRuler immortal emperor]], never again would the Empire fall prey to the petty schemes of mortal men. Alive or Undead, the people of the Empire would serve their new emperor without question. Vlad's undying reign would sweep away lawlessness and disorder for eternity.''
196-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Vampire Counts Army Book (7th edition)''
197
198->''"Psychiatry has been my continual study, to chart consciousness in all its strata. But intelligence does not require introspection: the son of Ryan was more effective than all his self-aware rivals. He lived without questions. I could [[WorldOfSilence end the self]]... '''[[TheEvilsOfFreeWill and save the world]]'''."''
199-->-- '''Sofia Lamb,''' ''VideoGame/BioShock2''
200
201->''"For a people’s revolution to survive, it must seize state power and use it to (a) break the stranglehold exercised by the owning class over the society’s institutions and resources, and (b) withstand the reactionary counterattack that is sure to come. The internal and external dangers a revolution faces necessitate a centralized state power that is not particularly to anyone’s liking, not in Soviet Russia in 1917, nor in Sandinista Nicaragua in 1980."''
202-->-- '''Michael Parenti'''
203
204->''"I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire!"''
205-->-- '''Darth Vader''', ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''
206
207->'''Storm:''' Oh, don't give me that brainwashed cult garbage, sweetheart. That lunatic guru of yours was willing to eliminate an entire species, in case it slipped your mind.\
208'''Juggernaut:''' Only so he could replace it with something better, Storm. You'd be singing a different tune if you'd seen the blueprints he put together or caught a glimpse of the Ten Mutant Commandments he had tattooed on his back.
209-->-- ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''
210
211->''"The cities that will burn, most of those who will die... much of that will happen in the name of an alleged greater, common good. As we wrote in the lyrics to 'Ad Arma! Ad Arma!':'' "The bloodshed that is to come shall happen in the name of love." ''Satan, if we are to give him the consensual definition of an egregore, will blow a wind of pestilence over this world not only to clamours of resentment and hatred, but much more so to sounds of belonging, community, love, compassion, fraternity, equality, and under the old banner of an ever brighter future"''.
212-->-- '''Music/DeathspellOmega''', [[http://www.cultneverdies.com/p/deathspell-omega.html Interview with Cult Never Dies]], 2020
213
214->''"Utopia comes at a price."''
215-->-- '''[[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]]''', ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018''
216
217->'''Letts:''' Janus affects 90 to 95 percent of the population leaving only 1 in 20 fertile. We predict the population will plateau at 500 million in just under a hundred years. By then normal breeding rates should resume, but on a planet that will feel ''empty''.\
218'''Ian:''' [[YoureInsane You're fucking insane]].\
219'''Letts:''' To do nothing is insane. You accuse us of being genocidal? Not acting is genocide. Where do you think your food comes from, Ian? A third of the world's farmland is now useless due to soil degradation. Yet we keep producing more mouths to feed. And what's your answer to that? Energy-saving lightbulbs?
220-->-- ''Series/{{Utopia}}''
221
222->'''Thanos:''' Going to bed hungry? Scrounging for scraps? Your planet was on the ''brink'' of collapse. I'm the one who stopped that. Do you know what’s happened since then? The children born have known nothing but full bellies and clear skies. It’s a paradise.\
223'''Gamora:''' Because you murdered half the planet.\
224'''Thanos:''' A ''small'' price to pay for salvation.
225-->-- ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''
226
227->''"I want people to experience their happy memories over and over after their death. And then we will connect all people -- we will create a way to communicate with each other in our second life. Something like posthumous community, that would be really similar to our current, normal world, but without pain or death... Immortality and technological progress are at your fingertips! And we will achieve it, no matter how many beings we have to sacrifice..."''
228-->-- '''[[spoiler:The Hospital Director]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Veins}}''
229
230->''Beneath a veneer of benignity, [Ho Chi Min] possessed the quality indispensable to all revolutionaries: absolute ruthlessness about the human cost of the courses he deemed appropriate for his people.''
231-->-- ''Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy'', by Max Hastings
232
233->''"You can make a movement, you can make a resistance, right, you can go out, and you can come back and they'll give you a ticker tape parade. They'll cheer for you in the streets, but you will change ''nothing''. If you have a revolution... everyone will hate you, you will sacrifice everything, and you will lose ''everything'' you ever had. But you'll come back, and ''everything'' will be changed."''
234-->-- '''Wilbur Soot''', ''WebVideo/DreamSMP''
235
236->''"Did you ever think we could do more good if we stopped worrying so much about who might get hurt in the process?"''
237-->-- '''Toa Tuyet''', ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''
238
239-> '''[[TheFederation Federation Representative]]:''' ''"Progress. Peace. Our federation prospering beyond imagination. Intense efforts in diplomacy, scientific research and strategic alliances have helped us create numerous worlds where multitudes of species coexist and thrive."''
240-> '''[[TheDictatorship Sydney Beauclair]]:''' ''"We have grown stronger. More secure. Through conquest, we have annexed foreign territories and their resources. Allowing us to build and reinforce [[TheEmpire our empire.]]"''
241-> '''Federation Representative:''' ''"But with the discovery of [[DysonSphere the sphere]], everything changed. It promises the dawn of a new age for our civilization."''
242-> '''Sydney Beauclair:''' ''"This could be the key to the next phase of our history."''
243-> '''Federation Representative:''' ''"The energy potential would enable us to eradicate the last deadly disease of our world and secure the resources needed for generations to come."''
244-> '''Sydney Beauclair:''' ''" We will control the entire galaxy, allowing us to finally forge order from chaos."''
245-> '''Federation Representative:''' ''"We will do this for freedom. For the future of our people."''
246-> '''Sydney Beauclair:''' ''"For structure and progression. For our path leads to..."'''
247-> '''Both simultaneously''' ''"UTOPIA!"''
248-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvGlBFaFEU Utopia "Path to Ascension" Release Date Reveal Trailer]]
249
250->''Fiat justitia, et pereat mundus.''[[note]]Latin: Let justice be done, though the world perish.[[/note]]
251-->-- '''Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor'''
252
253->''"You see some little kid about to drink Clorox, you gonna take away his free will or he ain't gonna get no destiny."''
254-->-- '''Huey Moon''', ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}''
255
256->''"If they had such a great idea of what the world was supposed to be and what that thing was, they could just tell people. But instead, they're making everybody miserable. They're killing people. Fuck that, fuck them, and I will be more than happy to drop a fucking ship on them. [...] It's easy to make a nice world if you keep killing everybody who fucking disagrees with you. If you can get down to five, it'll be amazing. Fucking utopia."''
257-->-- '''Ashton''', ''WebVideo/CriticalRole''
258
259->'''Azwel:''' Oh my. So you intend to give [[EvilWeapon Soul Edge]] to the nobles...\
260'''Raphael:''' Their war will escalate as they try to steal it from each other, at least for a time. Ultimately, however, even the last one standing [[ShmuckBait will perish on account of the sword]], thereby ending the chaos.\
261'''Azwel:''' So you with to turn the Earth into [[HellOnEarth some sort of Purgatory]]. You would sacrifice the innocent masses so?\
262'''Raphael:''' They live as if they were already dead! But they will become the foundation of a new world, giving their existence meaning!\
263'''Azwel:''' I see, I see...[[DevilsAdvocate you are fascinating]]! While our methods differ, I consider you [[VillainousFriendship a comrade]] on account of your lofty ideals.
264-->-- ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburVI''
265
266->''"The world does not want a saviour. These wretches leading lives of misery do not need salvation. The rotting branch must be pruned."''
267-->-- '''Guildenstern''', ''VideoGame/VagrantStory''

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