History Quotes / BeingGoodSucks

->''I believe there's a hero inside all of us, even if it means we have to give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.''

->''"It's easy to feel like a hero. It's a little harder to be one."''
-->-- '''[[Creator/PennAndTeller Penn Jillette]]''', ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit''

''That's why we put him in prison''

-->-- '''A bunch of racist Afrikaners''', ''Series/SpittingImage'', "I've Never Met a Nice South African" (for context, Breytenbach was arrested for [[MalignedMixedMarriage marrying a non-white woman]])

-->-- '''A bunch of racist Afrikaners''', ''Series/SpittingImage'', "I've Never Met a Nice South African" (for context, Breytenbach was arrested for [[MalignedMixedMarriage marrying a non-white person]])

''Except for Breyten Breytenbarch, and [[TheExile he's emigrated to Paris]]''\\

-->-- '''A bunch of racist Afrikaners''', ''Series/SpittingImage'', "I've Never Met a Nice South African" (for context, Breytenbarch was arrested for [[MalignedMixedMarriage marrying a non-white person]])

-->--'''Breakfast Duck''', on Christmas Eve, shortly before being struck by lightning.

->''Wish I'd never met you, [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor.]] I was much better off as a coward.''

->''"Without hope. Without witness. Without reward."''

-->--{{TheSmiths}} "I Know It's Over"

-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', "Divided We Fall"

-->-- ''Conversation from'' '''Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam'''

->''I believe there's a Hero inside all of us, even if it means we have to give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.''

->'' You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.''
-->-- '''John [=McClane=]''', ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard''

-->''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''

-> ''I am quite certain that there are people who do '''not''' repent of their good deeds when the return they get for them is treachery and ingratitude. I think that these few ought to be in Heaven; they are in the way here.''
-->-- Creator/MarkTwain, "Something About Repentance"

-> ''So “divisive” was UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln’s embrace of abolition that it got him shot in the head. So “divisive” was UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson’s embrace of civil rights that it fractured the Democratic Party. So “divisive” was UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant’s defense of black civil rights and war upon the Klan, that American historians spent the better part of a century destroying his reputation. So “divisive” was [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement Martin Luther King Jr]]. that his own government bugged him, harassed him, and demonized him until he was dead.''
-->-- '''Creator/TaNehisiCoates''' [[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-liberal-imagination/425022/ Bernie Sanders' Liberal Imagination]]'''

-->-- '''Vegeta''', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' to '''Goku (Kakarot)'''

-->-- [[http://www.biblestudytools.com/job/ Commentary]] on the [[Literature/TheBible Book of Job]]'s social context

-->-- '''Fu Inubozaki''', ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero''

-->-- {{TheSmiths}} "I Know It's Over"

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-->-- {{TheSmiths}} "I Know It's Over"

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-->-- '''[[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-liberal-imagination/425022/ Ta-Nehisi Coates]]'''

->''I wanted him to reawaken the evil in my heart. I wanted him to return me to the way I was before. I was the perfect warrior, cold and ruthless. I lived by my strength alone, uninhibited by foolish emotion.... but slowly over the years I became one of you. My quest for greatness gradually giving way to this life of mediocrity. I awoke one day to find I had settled down, formed a family, I had even grown quite fond of them. Would you believe I almost started to think the Earth was a nice place to live. You understand now Kakarot? That's why I needed Babidi to set me free. By releasing the evil in my heart he has freed me of the petty attachments... and I have to say it feels pretty good.''

->''It may sound absurd but don't be naive\\
Even heroes have the right to bleed''
-->--"Superman (It's Not Easy)", '''Music/FiveForFighting'''

->'''Sheridan''': I can hear Londo now. "I imagine you are finding your 'principles' most inconvenient now, yes?"\\
'''Delenn''': He went on for a bit longer, but that was the sense of it.
-->--''Series/BabylonFive'', "The Paragon of Animals"

->''Man, I saw this one double R-rated movie, where the good guy stepped on this rabbit, and he didn't kill it, but then later on in the movie, he ''wished he did!'' The GOOD GUY! That's messed up, man! You can't let kids watch that kind of thing!''
-->-- '''Strong Bad,''' [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad E-mail "rated"]]

-->--'''Creator/ChretienDeTroyes''', ''[[KingArthur Lancelot, or the Knight of the Cart]]''

-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''

-> ''So “divisive” was UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln’s embrace of abolition that it got him shot in the head. So “divisive” was UsefulNotes/LyndonBJohnson’s embrace of civil rights that it fractured the Democratic Party. So “divisive” was UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant’s defense of black civil rights and war upon the Klan, that American historians spent the better part of a century destroying his reputation. So “divisive” was [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement Martin Luther King Jr]]. that his own government bugged him, harassed him, and demonized him until he was dead.''