"Every search for a hero begins with a search for something that every hero requires: a villain.'"
— Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich, Mission: Impossible II
"You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, 'That's the bad guy.'"
— Tony Montana, Scarface (1983)
"Villains are like the grit in the polishing machine that turns pebbles into gems. We are the irritant that make the oyster make the pearl."
— John de Lancie, describing his role as Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation
"But imagine the abomination of a world where nothing can end and no choice can be preferred to any other. Imagine the things that would suffer and never die. Imagine the lies that would flourish without context or corrective. Imagine a world without me."
— The Darkness, Unveiling: Pleased to Meet You, Destiny 2
"We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one, you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too."
"We are here to do good to others. What the others are here for I don't know."
"Justice is not a sword by which evil is overcome, but a scale keeping good and evil in balance. [...] One may succumb to evil, but reject that darkness and re-discover the light with new understanding. Justice makes that journey possible. Evil informs good. And that is why we give the mortals their minds."
— Gowasu, Dragon Ball Super
"The greatest wish and the ugliest wish I have are the same. Yes, the desire to protect something... is, at the same time, none other than the wish for something to violate it."
— Shirou Emiya after being told his wish to be a hero has been granted, Fate/stay night
