History Quotes / AboveGoodAndEvil

->'''Veidt''': I’d hope you’d understand, unlike [[BlackAndWhiteMorality Rorschach]] …\\

'''Veidt''': But you’d regained your interest in human life …\\

->''"The morality of my activities escapes me."''

-->-- '''Friedrich Nietzsche''', ''Beyond Good and Evil''

-->-- '''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "The Call of Cthulhu"

-->-- '''Dr. Lecter''', ''{Literature/{Hannibal}}''

-->-- '''Justine''', ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''

->''"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."''
-->-- '''Taylor''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

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

-->-- '''Dr. Lecter''', ''{{Literature/Hannibal}}''

-> Above all else, my children, be hard. For what is done for love is beyond good and evil.

->The morality of my activities escapes me.

->You would seek to punish me? I am'' beyond ''good and evil.

->As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.
-->--'''Col. Walter E. Kurtz''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''

->I don't put a gun to anybody's head and make them shoot. I admit, the shooting war is better for business, but I prefer people to fire my guns and miss, just as long as they keep firing.
-->--'''Yuri Orlov''', ''Film/LordOfWar''

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

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

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

->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.
-->--'''Creator/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.
-->--'''Taylor''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

->Good and evil has nothing to do with God. I collect church collapses, did you see the recent one in Sicily? The façade fell on sixty-five grandmothers attending a special mass. Was that evil? Was that God? If he's up there, he just loves it. Typhoid and swans, it all comes from the same place.
-->--'''Dr. Lecter''', ''{{Literature/Hannibal}}''

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

->There are no absolutes, no right and wrong. Haven't you learned ''anything'' working for The Powers? There are only choices. I offered paradise; '''you''' chose '''[[CrapsackWorld this]]'''!
-->--'''Jasmine''', ''Series/{{Angel}}''

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

->I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right!

->Short sighted fool. I have no interest in your narrow interpretation of morality. I'm above all that, above good and evil.

->Good and evil, savior and destroyer. These are subjective concepts that exist in the eye of the beholder. Wanting only salvation, fearful mankind saw the Ophiuchus as a savior, even thought it's power transcended good and evil.
-->--''VideoGame/RefleX''

-->--''WesternAnimation/XMen''

->My either/or does not denote in the first instance the choice between good and evil, it denotes the choice whereby one chooses good and evil or excludes them.
-->--''Kierkegaard''

->Has the universe any unity of plan or purpose, or is it a fortuitous concourse of atoms? Is conciousness a permanent part of the universe, giving hope of indefinite growth in wisdom, or is it a transitory accident on a small planet on which life must ultimately become impossible? Are good and evil of importance to the universe or only to man?
-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell''', The Problems of Philosophy

->[[TautologicalTemplar What's good for me is right.]]

->Nietzsche always escaped a question by a physical metaphor, like a cheery minor poet. He said, "beyond good and evil," because he had not the courage to say, "more good than good and evil," or, "more evil than good and evil." Had he faced his thought without metaphors, he would have seen that it was nonsense. So, when he describes his hero, he does not dare to say, "the purer man," or "the happier man," or "the sadder man," for all these are ideas; and ideas are alarming. He says "the upper man," or "over man," a physical metaphor from acrobats or alpine climbers. Nietzsche is truly a very timid thinker. He does not really know in the least what sort of man he wants evolution to produce.
-->--'''Creator/GKChesterton''', Orthodoxy

->'''ComicBook/Cable''': The world won't stomach your evil forever.\\
'''ComicBook/Apocalypse''': Evil? I am not malevolent! I simply AM!

-->--'''HPLovecraft''', "The Call of Cthulhu"

-->-- '''Gary Mitchell''', ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")

-->-- '''{{Galactus}}'''

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

-->-- '''Lord Doom''', ''The GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''

->I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right!
-->-- '''The Witch''', ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''

->Short sighted fool. I have no interest in your narrow interpretation of morality. I'm above all that, above good and evil.
-->-- '''The Contessa''', ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves''

->There are no absolutes, no right and wrong. Haven't you learned ''anything'' working for The Powers? There are only choices. I offered paradise; '''you''' chose '''[[CrapsackWorld this]]'''!
-->--'''Jasmine''', ''Series/{{Angel}}''

->My either/or does not denote in the first instance the choice between good and evil, it denotes the choice whereby one chooses good and evil or excludes them.
-->--''Kierkegaard''

->Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
-->-- ''The Revolt of the Angels'', '''Anatole France'''

->The morality of my activities escapes me.
-->-- '''Doctor Manhattan''', ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''

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


->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''

->You would seek to punish me? I am'' beyond ''good and evil.
-->-- '''{{Galactus}}'''

!!!RealLife

->You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that. But you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... horror has a face. And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.

-> ''"Above all else, my children, be hard. For what is done for love is beyond good and evil."''

-> ''"Short sighted fool. I have no interest in your narrow interpretation of morality. I'm above all that, above good and evil.

->''"There are no absolutes, no right and wrong. Haven't you learned ''anything'' working for The Powers? There are only choices. I offered paradise; '''you''' chose '''[[CrapsackWorld this]]'''!"''

->''“Has the universe any unity of plan or purpose, or is it a fortuitous concourse of atoms? Is conciousness a permanent part of the universe, giving hope of indefinite growth in wisdom, or is it a transitory accident on a small planet on which life must ultimately become impossible? Are good and evil of importance to the universe or only to man?”''
-->--'''Bertrand Russell''', The Problems of Philosophy

->''My either/or does not denote in the first instance the choice between good and evil, it denotes the choice whereby one chooses good and evil or excludes them.''
-->--'''Kierkegaard'''

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

->''"I don't put a gun to anybody's head and make them shoot. I admit, the shooting war is better for business, but I prefer people to fire my guns and miss, just as long as they keep firing."''

-> ''"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."''

-> ''"The morality of my activities escapes me."''

-> ''"Morals are for men, not [[AGodAmI gods]]."''

-> ''"What's good for me is right."''
-->-- '''William Edward Hickman''', ''serial killer'', and Creator/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'."''

-> ''"You would seek to punish me? I am'' beyond ''good and evil."''

->''"Integrity\\
Truth, loyalty are private virtues; kings\\
Do as they will."''
-->-- '''Atreus''', ''Thyestes''

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

->''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.''

->''Good and evil, savior and destroyer. These are subjective concepts that exist in the eye of the beholder. Wanting only salvation, fearful mankind saw the Ophiuchus as a savior, even thought it's power transcended good and evil.''

->'''Cigarette Smoking Man:''' Look at me. No wife, no family. Some "power." I’m in the game because I believe what I’m doing is right.
->'''Mulder:''' Right? Who are you to decide what’s right?
->'''Cigarette Smoking Man''': Who are ''you?'' If people were to know the things I know, it would all fall apart.
-->--'''''Series/TheXFiles''''', "One Breath"

->'''Cigarette Smoking Man''': Who are you? If people were to know the things I know, it would all fall apart.