History Quotes / AboveGoodAndEvil

-->--'''Spica Astrea''', ''VideoGame/RefleX''

-->The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and reveling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
--> --'''HPLovecraft''', "The Call of Cthulhu"

-->''Being good or bad was never a thing for me. Not really. It was all about the actions I was taking and why, instead. I became a warlord and I took care of people. I helped seize the city from Coil and we started implementing changes.''

--> --'''HPLovecraft''', "TheCallOfCthulhu"

-->-- '''Lord Doom'', EvilOverlord and WellIntentionedExtremist, ''The GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''

->"''Good and evil are subjective things, meaningful only within a given ethical perpective. There is no such thing as absolute evil unless you believe in the existence of an absolute moral code. If then, by soft deontological approaches it is possible for heroes to be good, or strictly speaking doing the less of two evils.''"

-> "''A nihilist is someone who tried to go beyond Good and Evil, but only made it half-way.''"

-->--'''Jadis, The White Witch''', ''[[TheChroniclesofNarnia The Magician's Nephew]]''

-->-- '''Quirinus Quirrell (possessed by [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]])''', ''Literature/HarryPotter''

-->-- '''[[MarvelComics Galactus]]'''

-->-- '''[[CompleteMonster Atreus]]''', ''Thyestes''

-->-- '''Gary Mitchell''', ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Where No Man Has Gone Before]]''

->"''Good and evil are subjective things, meaningful only within a given ethical perpective. There is no such thing as absolute evil unless you believe in the existence of an absolute moral code. If then, by soft deontological approaches it is possible for heroes to be good, or strictly speaking doing the less of two evils.''"

-->-- '''William Edward Hickman''', ''serial killer'', and AynRand's [[http://www.michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm personal hero.]]

->''"There is no good and evil... there is only power, and those too weak to understand it..."''

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-->-- '''Quirinus Quirrell (possessed by [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]]), ''Literature/HarryPotter''

-->-- '''Doctor Manhattan''', ''{{Watchmen}}''

->''The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary, the most hidden, the most deviant, the man beyond good and evil, lord of his virtues, a man lavishly endowed with will-- this is precisely what greatness is to be called: it is able to be as much a totality as something multi-faceted, as wide as it is full.''
-->--'''Nietzsche'''

-> Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

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-> You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.

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-> The morality of my activities escapes me.

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-> Above all else, my children, be hard. For what is done for love is beyond good and evil.
-->-- '''Friedrich Nietzsche''', ''Beyond Good and Evil''

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-> Morals are for men, not [[AGodAmI gods]].\\
-- '''Gary Mitchell''', ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Where No Man Has Gone Before]]''

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-> What's good for me is right.

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-> I don't bother with petty labels such as 'good' and 'evil. Why should I? I am much more concerned with 'necessary' and 'unnecessary'.

-> "You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny."

-> "What do you mean by good and evil? Sometimes people kill in the name of good and others are left to live in the name of evil. I serve the Tao. The balance is what is important. Good and evil are not important concerns. I serve to protect, to heal, to care for others, to teach. There is no higher purpose than that. I save lives and I take them, when it serves the Tao."
-->-- '''[[EmpathicWeapon Destiny's Wave]]''', WhateleyUniverse.

-> We are what we are, Niall. Neither as good nor as evil as others paint us, and what we are doesn't change what we truly feel, only how free we are to act on those feelings.
-->-- '''Irial, king of the dark [[TheFairFolk Fey]]''', ''[[WickedLovely Ink Exchange]]''

-> "What's good for me is right."

-> "I don't bother with petty labels such as 'good' and 'evil. Why should I? I am much more concerned with 'necessary' and 'unnecessary'."

-> “Nature doesn’t recognize good and evil, Phillip. Nature only recognizes balance and imbalance.”
-->-- '''Walternate''', ''{{Fringe}}''

-> "You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny. "

-> “What do you mean by good and evil? Sometimes people kill in the name of good and others are left to live in the name of evil. I serve the Tao. The balance is what is important. Good and evil are not important concerns. I serve to protect, to heal, to care for others, to teach. There is no higher purpose than that. I save lives and I take them, when it serves the Tao."
-->--'''[[EmpathicWeapon Destiny's Wave]]''', WhateleyUniverse.

-> Morals are for men, not [[AGodAmI gods]]\\

-> We are what we are, Niall. Niether as good nor as evil as others paint us, and what we are doesn't change what we truly feel, only how free we are to act on those feelings.

->"What's good for me is right."
--> -- '''William Edward Hickman''', ''serial killer, and AynRand's [[http://www.michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm personal hero.]]'

->"I don't bother with petty labels such as 'good' and 'evil. Why should I? I am much more concerned with 'necessary' and 'unnecessary'."
-->--'''Lord Doom'', EvilOverlord and WellIntentionedExtremist, ''The GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''

->“Nature doesn’t recognize good and evil, Phillip. Nature only recognizes balance and imbalance.”
-->--'''Walternate''', ''{{Fringe}}''

-->--'''Lord Doom'', EvilOverlord and WellIntentionedExtremist, ''TheGlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''