Quotes / Good Cannot Comprehend Evil

Gumball: I can't believe that Mrs. Robinson could be so evil.
Darwin: Dude, no one is truly "evil".
Gumball: Darwin, she's "blame-two-kids-for-a-crime-to-make-them-do-community-service" evil. Nah, she's more evil than that. She's "heart-so-dark-it's-a-blackhole" evil..."wall-street" evil. [Whispering] Dang it, still not right. [Gasp] She's "ads-before-your-video-loads" evil.
Darwin: Gumball, there's no such thing as evil people. Just ordinary people who do bad things because they're unhappy.

—The Amazing World of Gumball, "The Wicked"

"What is wrong with you two?! Don't you care about anyone? Look what you've done! Stop laughing!"

— Van Driessen to Beavis and Butt-Head when they laugh at McVicker's electroshock therapy treatment, Beavis And Butthead, "Breakdown"

Bruce: Targeting me won't get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.

Alfred: You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.

Bruce: Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he's after.

Alfred: With respect, Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man that you don't fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.

Bruce: So why steal them?

Alfred: Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

— The Dark Knight

"Butters didn't have it in him to comprehend the kind of violence, hatred, and bloodlust that had fallen upon the late Bartlesby. That kind of utter disregard for the sanctity of life simply didn't exist in his personal world, and it left him at a total loss when confronted with it face-to-face."

— Harry Dresden on Waldo Butters, Dead Beat

Rō: How could you? Even the most despicable of villains has something which they hold dear and wish to protect! A loved one? Cherished memories? A precious place from one's childhood, even?
Frieza: Excuse me, my good man: I simply do not understand what it is that you are prattling about.

— Dragon Ball Super

"So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it."

— Marge Gunderson to Gaear Grimsrud, Fargo

Children of the land, answer this
Why must you turn to empty bliss
Tell me why break trust, why turn the past to dust
Seeking solace in the abyss
Tell me why create, a circle none can break
Why must you let go, the life you were bestowed
This I fear I'll never know
Never know

— Dragonsong, Final Fantasy XIV

"Why does murder make so much sense to these people?! Their entire fucking thought process doesn’t seem to be “why” but “why the hell not?” and there’s no talking them out of it! The people convinced there’s some nebulous conspiracy to hurt everyone for no explicable reason all eventually turn out to be dangerously demented, deceitful, murderous time bombs more harmful to everyone around them than any of their damned conspiracies and their family is usually the first to suffer despite any and all lip service they pay to such values as their defense for their insanity."

—Passerby, Fundies Say the Darndest Things

Regime Superman: You just don't get it!
Superman: You're right, I don't.

— Injustice: Gods Among Us

You think it's strange
You think that I'm deranged
You want to stop this scheme?
Demon in pink
Who can't think what I think
Why should you be the only one to dream?

— Marx, Vs. Marx, Man on the Internet

"There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville here awhile back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a 14-year-old girl. Papers said it was a 'crime of passion' but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been plannin' to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out, he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell: 'Be there in about fifteen minutes.' I don't know what to make of that. I surely don't."

Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, No Country for Old Men

"Humans are incapable of destroying themselves?" Turns out he never knew what humans are capable of.

— Venom Snake on Hot Coldman, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

"You were born with compassion, only that also means that when people are cruel to you it cuts you deep. You won't understand that you have to walk right up to the ones who are being hateful and laugh in their faces and earn their respect. Instead you'll try to figure out what you did to make them mad at you."

— Orson Scott Card

"Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do."

— Orson Scott Card

Nanako: Oh, yeah, I saw this on the news: "Robbery at the post office." (Beat) Why do bad people do bad things?
Player Character: I don't know.
Nanako: I see... You're not a bad person, so I guess you wouldn't know.

— Persona 4

Jaune Arc: What is wrong with you? How can you be so broken inside ... to take so many lives, and then come here and rub it in our faces like it’s something to be proud of?! All with that damn smile on your face! I’m gonna make you pay for what you did! Do you hear me?! Well?! SAY SOMETHING!
Cinder Fall: ...Who are you again?

— RWBY

Tom: And now comes a surge of pity… yes, I feel it. God, how insipid you are. How predictable. How full of drama and tepid romantic conclusions. [The orphanage] was just a place like your sorry little Burrow, overrun with children. No different.
Ginny: You say that you can feel my lies. Well, you are in me so much now that I can feel yours too. And I do not feel sorry for you at all. I have been thinking. Harry is an orphan, and he is not horrible. And Prissy has everything she wants, and she is still nasty. So I do not know how much it counts. I cannot work out what is wrong with you.
[Several lines of Visible Stunned Silence.]
Tom: Get. Out.

—The Very Secret Diary

Skinner: You see, as much as I enjoyed your wild theories, Sergeant, the truth is far less complex. Blower's fate was simply the result of his being... an appalling actor.
The NWA Members: (in unison) Appalling!
Angel: You murdered him for that?!
Skinner: Well, he murdered Bill Shakespeare.
Angel: What?! [Beat] ...Oh!

— Hot Fuzz

"I don't understand... why you're so SMALL! You can turn bullets into flowers- think of the good you could do! So tell me why you don't?."

— The Doctor on The Toymaker, Doctor Who 60th AS "The Giggle"

Santa: Release me fast or you will have to/Answer for this heinous act
Oogie Boogie:Oh, brother, you're something/You put me in a spin/You aren't comprehending/The position that you're in

— The Nightmare Before Christmas

"What do you find so entertaining? What's so amusing about this? What do you take life for, exactly? How can you forget?"

— Yoriichi Tsugikuni to Muzan Kibutsuji, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

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