History Quotes / HannibalLecture

->'''Hole's Avatar:''' Everyone's scared of love, dipshit. You'll learn that in your '20s. It takes a very rare, very powerful being to be terrified of happiness.

->'''Hole's Avatar:''' You're dumb. That's why you're not scared to be happy. The smarter you are, the more you know. Happiness is a trap. It can't last forever. Let's say you meet the love of your life, well, it's still gonna end. It's inevitable, whether by the slow pull of a disease, or the shock of loose footing on a hiking trail, whether it be the corrosion of two personalities that reshape each other until they're incompatible, or maybe the old stranger in a bar who says the things that need to be said, to that person, that night. The point is, happiness always ends. Best case scenario, think about this. Best case is that you die at the same time. Yikes.

-->-- '''[[TrueFinalBoss THE END]]''' to Sonic, ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers''

->'''[[ManipulativeBastard Jack Slash]]''': What’s holding you back? [[LethalHarmlessPowers You’re capable of so much, of changing the world, of destroying it, but you’re so very small,]] [[HealingHands Amelia Claire Lavere]]... Imagine my surprise when I found out your relation to [[AffablyEvil Marquis.]] In my last visit to [[CityOfAdventure Brockton Bay]], I crossed paths with each of the major players. I met the man. I must tell you, Amelia, he was a ''very'' interesting character. [[NobleDemon Marquis was a man of]] ''[[NobleDemon honor]]''. [[TheFettered He decided on the rules he would play by and he stuck to them. He put his life and limb at risk to try to keep]] [[SerialKiller me]] [[WouldntHitAGirl from killing women]] [[WouldntHurtAChild and children]], and I decided to see if I could use that to break him. I admit I failed... [[LikeFatherLikeSon You’re your father’s daughter. Both of you are bound up in rules you’ve imposed on yourselves.]] [[TheFettered His rules defined his demeanor, the boundaries he worked within, the goals he sought to achieve and how he achieved them. They were his armor as much as his power was.]] [[StupidGood I would guess your rules are your weakness.]] Rather than focus you, they leave you in free fall, nothing to grasp on to except your sister there, [[BodyHorror and we both know how]] ''[[BodyHorror that]]'' [[BodyHorror has turned out]]... you could be like us. [[EvilIsEasy It wouldn’t even be very hard.]] Just let go of those rules of yours. You’d get everything you ever wanted. [[NotBloodSiblings Amelia, when I say you could have everything you ever wanted, I’m telling you that you could live free of guilt, of shame, you could have your sister by your side, no more doubts plaguing you, no more feeling down. Haven’t you laid in bed at night, wondering, praying for a world where you could have something like that?]] I’m telling you that you can have those things, and I promise you that the transition from being who you are now to being who you could be would be much quicker than you suspect. Amelia, you could let yourself cut loose and love life for the first time since you were young.\\

'''Jack Slash''': I see. From your earliest memory, what was that? In Marquis’s home? No? Being taken ''home'' by the heroes and heroines that would become your false family? Ah, I saw that change in expression. That would be your earliest memory, and you found yourself struggling to adjust to your new home, to school and life without your supervillain daddy. By the time you did figure those things out, you had other worries. I imagine your family was distant. So you struggled to please them, to be a good girl, not that it ever mattered. [[WellDoneSonGuy There was only disappointment]]... I know these sorts of things and what to look for because I’ve met others like you. That’s what I’m offering you. A chance to be with similar people for the first time in your life, a chance to be yourself, to have everything you want, and to be with me. I suspect you’ve never been around someone who actually paid attention to you... I imagine they were telling you ‘No, you aren’t. You can be good'?... But you didn’t believe them, did you, Amelia? You’ve spent years telling yourself the opposite. You’re a bad person, you’re destined to be bad, by circumstance and blood. And even though you didn’t believe them, you’ll believe ''me'' when I tell you no, you aren’t a good person, but that’s okay. Isn’t it unfair? Through no fault of your own, the blood in your veins is the blood of a criminal, and that’s affected how your family looks at you. You’ve been saddled with feelings that aren’t your fault, and doomed to a life without color, enjoyment or pleasure. Don’t you deserve to follow your passions? [[HeroicFatigue A decade and a half of doing what others want you to do, doing what]] ''[[HeroicFatigue society]]'' [[HeroicFatigue wants you to do, haven’t you earned the right to do what you really desire, just this once?]] So I’ll offer you a deal. If you indulge yourself, we’ll surrender. I won’t even make you do it now. Just look me in the eye, and honestly tell me you’ll do it. Drop all of the rules you’ve set yourself. I don’t care what you do after, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia you can wipe your sister’s memories,]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone you can kill yourself,]] you can run away or come with us. [[PyrrhicVictory And your side wins]]... Three and a half words: 'I'll do it', and we leave the city.

-> '''Loki:''' [[ActorAllusion I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU, ALLFATHER!]] ''[[Creator/AnthonyHopkins I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!!]]''

-->-- '''Russian Colonel''', [[PropagandaMachine Russia Today]] interview about interrogating captured Ukrainian soldiers in 2022

-->-- '''Sephiroth''' to the heroes, ''Machinima/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged''

--->---'''Satou's Aunt''' to a police officer, ''Manga/HappySugarLife''

-->-- '''Russian Colonel''', [[PropagandaMachine Russia Today]] interview about interrogating captured Ukrainian soldiers in 2021

->'''[[ManipulativeBastard Jack Slash]]''': What’s holding you back? [[LethalHarmlessPowers You’re capable of so much, of changing the world, of destroying it, but you’re so very small,]] [[HealingHands Amelia Claire Lavere]]... Imagine my surprise when I found out your relation to [[AffablyEvil Marquis.]] In my last visit to [[CityOfAdventure Brockton Bay]], I crossed paths with each of the major players. I met the man. I must tell you, Amelia, he was a ''very'' interesting character. [[NobleDemon Marquis was a man of]] ''[[NobleDemon honor]]''. [[TheFettered He decided on the rules he would play by and he stuck to them. He put his life and limb at risk to try to keep]] [[SerialKiller me]] [[WouldntHitAGirl from killing women]] [[WouldntHurtAChild and children]], and I decided to see if I could use that to break him. I admit I failed... [[InTheBlood You’re your father’s daughter. Both of you are bound up in rules you’ve imposed on yourselves.]] [[TheFettered His rules defined his demeanor, the boundaries he worked within, the goals he sought to achieve and how he achieved them. They were his armor as much as his power was.]] [[StupidGood I would guess your rules are your weakness.]] Rather than focus you, they leave you in free fall, nothing to grasp on to except your sister there, [[BodyHorror and we both know how]] ''[[BodyHorror that]]'' [[BodyHorror has turned out]]... you could be like us. [[EvilIsEasy It wouldn’t even be very hard.]] Just let go of those rules of yours. You’d get everything you ever wanted. [[NotBloodSiblings Amelia, when I say you could have everything you ever wanted, I’m telling you that you could live free of guilt, of shame, you could have your sister by your side, no more doubts plaguing you, no more feeling down. Haven’t you laid in bed at night, wondering, praying for a world where you could have something like that?]] I’m telling you that you can have those things, and I promise you that the transition from being who you are now to being who you could be would be much quicker than you suspect. Amelia, you could let yourself cut loose and love life for the first time since you were young.\\

-->-- '''Davis "The Balloonman" Lamond''' to '''Detective Jim Gordon''' when the latter confronts him over his vigilantism, ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', "[[Recap/GothamS1E3TheBalloonman The Balloonman]]"

-->--'''Davis "The Balloonman" Lamond''' to '''Detective Jim Gordon''' when the latter confronts him over his vigilantism, ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', "[[Recap/GothamS1E3TheBalloonman The Balloonman]]"

-->-- '''Tomura Shigaraki'', ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''

->''"You heroes pretend to be society's guardians. For generations, you pretended not to see those you couldn't protect and swept their pain under the rug. It's tainted everything you've built. That means your system's all rotten from the inside with maggots crawling out. It all builds up, little by little, over time. You've got the common trash, all too dependent on being protected. And the brave guardians who created the trash that need coddling. It's a corrupt, vicious cycle. Everything I've witnessed... this whole system you've built has always rejected me. Now I'm ready to reject it. That's why I destroy. That's why I took this power for myself. Simple enough, yeah? I don't care if you understand. That's what makes us... heroes and villains."''