History Quotes / TheCaligula

->''The king can do as he likes!''
-->-- Also '''King Joffrey Baratheon''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''

->''"Yes, yes, I murdered countless innocents. Yes, I outlawed religion. Yes, I changed the currency so that everyone’s savings were meaningless and yes, [[ArsonMunderAndJaywalking I may have gone through a period of bathing in yak’s blood and slamming rails of coke]]. But I’m reformed now! Look at me! Getting this country back on its feet again. Top shape, Ajay. ''[[ImmediateSelfContradiction (sound of Pagan snorting a line of coke)]]'' Top shape."''

->''"Yes, yes, I murdered countless innocents. Yes, I outlawed religion. Yes, I changed the currency so that everyone’s savings were meaningless and yes, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I may have gone through a period of bathing in yak’s blood and slamming rails of coke]]. But I’m reformed now! Look at me! Getting this country back on its feet again. Top shape, Ajay. ''[[ImmediateSelfContradiction (sound of Pagan snorting a line of coke)]]'' Top shape."''

->[[UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre Max]] we are sending way too many people to the Guillotine.

'''Marshal:''' [[WrittenByWinners Only if I lose.]]

-->-- '''Caligula''', ''Caligula'' (1979)

'''Marshal:''' Only if I lose.

->'''[[BigBad Yzma]]:''' It is no concern of mine whether or not your family has... what was it again?\\
'''Peasant:''' Umm... food?\\

->'''Yzma:''' It is no concern of mine whether or not your family has... what was it again?\\
'''Peasant:''' Umm... food?\\
'''Yzma:''' HAH! You really should have thought of that before you became ''peasants''!
-->--''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''

->''"Endear me? To'' people? ''Ha! That's the last thing I want to do!"''

-->-- '''Prince John''', ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood''

'''Sarabi:''' If you were half the king [[BerserkButton Mufasa]] was, you'd nev--\\
'''[[CantTakeCriticism Scar]]:''' ''[smacks her]'' I'M '''''TEN TIMES''''' THE KING MUFASA WAS!

-->--'''King Joffrey Baratheon''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''

-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} Ouro Kronii]]''' as a dictator in [[VideoGame/{{Frostpunk}}]]

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/blog/voluminous-description/ Jack Graham]]''' on ''Hitler: A Bigography''

->''"Let them hate me, [[TheDreaded so long as they fear me!]]"''

->''"If only the Roman people had but one throat so I might slit it!"''

->''"[[AGodAmI I, Caligula am a god!]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity I only have to nod and]] [[SlashedThroat all your throats will be cut!]] [[AxCrazy Rome is just a city of necks waiting for me to chop!]]"''

->''"The repeated motif of 'working towards the Fuhrer' is cleverly seized-upon by Kershaw to show how much Nazi policy originated at lower levels with [[ProfessionalButtKisser ambitious lickspittles and careerists]] pandering to Hitler, and his perennial attraction to the most radical 'solution' to any problem. In the second volume, the best bits are about how the haphazardly evolved structure of the Nazi state meant that, with more and more power invested in a man pathologically incapable of countenancing retreat under any circumstances, almost everyone except Hitler knew that the war was lost, yet were unable - often unwilling - to do anything about it."''

->''"Those who do not love me [[IfICantHaveYou do not deserve to live.]]"''

->''"He kills our people, arrests people who are against his administration. He produces drugs. [[ViceCity It's a national industry.]] He kidnaps other people from South Korea, or other democratic countries. He is doing all sorts of bad things, like the devil. Do not trust him, never, ever."''

->''"If [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] had not left by helicopter, [[BedlamHouse men in white]] would have taken him away."''

->''"One of the many questions which it is the function of the early empire to answer is, "Just how silly can the emperor be without causing the empire to collapse?" The answer, in every case, is "Very silly indeed."''
-->-- '''John J. Reilly'''

'''Scar:''' ''[smacks her]'' I'M '''''TEN TIMES''''' THE KING MUFASA WAS!

-->-- '''WebAnimation/Oversimplfied'''

->[[UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre Max]] we are sending way too many people to the Guillotine

->''"The second kind [of evil emperor] is the decadent bad guy. He also doesn't tend to have much influence on the inner workings of his empire beyond the occasional gladiatorial arena, mostly because there's likely to be fourteen layers of bureaucracy between him and the actual civilians. This emperor is a manchild. He does what he wants, indulges whatever villainous ideas he has, and basically just takes advantage of his absolute power. He's very dangerous on a personal scale because he has no constraints and no sense of propriety, and this is why he's generally not really in charge. His bureaucracy is more likely to be made up of overly ambitious people trying to manipulate the system for their own benefit, but the emperor just tend towards some good old fashioned chaotic evil."''