History Quotes / ChaoticGood

I don't do what I do to define anything. [[{{Ubermensch}} I do what I do because I love to do it.]]\\

-->-- Opening message from the Japanese manual for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'', written from [[Characters/SonicTheHedgehogSonicTheHedgehog the titular character's perspective]]

->"Sorry for being irreverent.\\

-->-- '''Sonic the Hedgehog''', opening message from the Japanese manual for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1''

->''One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr'''

-->-- '''ComicBook/GreenArrow''', ''[=Green Arrow=] / Comicbook/GreenLantern #77''

-->-- '''ComicBook/JohnConstantine''', ''Comicbook/BooksOfMagic #14''

-->-- ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''

->The First Ideal: Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination]].\\

->''I don't know why, [[{{Determinator}} I can't leave though it might be tough]]\\

I got my way, my own way''

->''The [[LaResistance Brotherhood]] was [[WeHelpTheHelpless the people's only defense]]. We became [[CrusadingWidower the brothers of murdered siblings, husbands of murdered wives and fathers of murdered children]], led by a murdered man. Once [[LawfulGood we sought to bring the king's justice to the realm]], now we bring the [[ChurchMilitant Lord's]]. Or at least we try.''

-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''[='=]s [[https://splatoonus.tumblr.com/post/186223383475/agent-4-team-chaos-agent-4-is-the-type-of-squid Squid Research Lab]] on '''Agent 4'''

'''[[BrokenBird Haruka]]''': Um... [[TheDragAlong I don't want]] to prove the existence of PsychicPowers.... [[note]] She has ''[[DarkAndTroubledPast very]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer good]] and [[MindOverManners understandable]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive reasons]]'' [[JustifiedTrope why she wouldn't]]. [[/note]]\\

-->-- Yuriko recruiting Haruka in ''Manga/KotouraSan'', episode 2

->You want to make it so everyone's cut from the same cloth. Guess what? I won't let it happen! 'Cause this world is better off with batshit crazy people than it is with you!

->[[ThePowersThatBe I don't care what I become.]] All those who fought against witches, who believed in hope as magical girls, I don't want to see them cry. [[GoOutWithASmile I want them to be smiling to the end.]] If any rule or law stands against that, I will destroy it. I will rewrite it.

->Oh boy! Now I've heard it all... Because Soames muscled his way into authority, he's a good guy, huh? Pal, [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] was the "boss" of Germany, remember? And there was UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}... Throughout history, cheap punks have made themselves leaders! Regardless of their titles, they were still cheap punks!

->Nobody's always right. Nobody's always good. But wanting to be? Wanting to do what's best so fucking much you'll change the rules to do it? That's a win in my book.

->They may take our lives, but they will never take... OUR FREEDOM!!!

->You're scared because you can't control me. You can't, and you never will. But that doesn't mean I'm your enemy.

->I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world... without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries; a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

->A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can ''make'' people... "better." And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.

->Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

->People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

->I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

->Is that the position of the Jedi Order? What the galaxy needs is one language, one system of measurement, one uniform, one flag? Should we just cut the word "no" out of the language and substitute "Yes sir, right away, sir" instead?

->The First Ideal: [[MartialPacifist Life before death]]. [[ComesGreatResponsibility Strength before weakness]]. [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts Journey before destination]].\\

->Bad laws were made to be broken.

->I am definitely a madman with a box!

->Good men don't need rules.

->The [[LaResistance Brotherhood]] was [[WeHelpTheHelpless the people's only defense]]. We became [[CrusadingWidower the brothers of murdered siblings, husbands of murdered wives and fathers of murdered children]], led by a murdered man. Once [[LawfulGood we sought to bring the king's justice to the realm]], now we bring the [[ChurchMilitant Lord's]]. Or at least we try.

->We weren't born to follow\\
Come on an' get up off your knees

->Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's [[PoliceBrutality a cop beatin' a guy]]\\

Look in their eyes, Mom, you'll see me."

->We're not bad people\\

(But we do as we please)
-->-- '''Mungo Jerry''', "In the Summertime"

->Sometimes I just want to drive\\

I'm breaking out of here tonight.

->Our freedom of speech is freedom or death. We got to fight the powers that be!

->Whatever I thought right\\

others approved of.

->We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our ability to choose - whatever you think is true - that makes us human... There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the way. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else.

->[[GangOfHats The Kings]] are about an idea, you see? Where every man is free to follow his own path, do his own thing. Where every man is a king in his own right.

->I never cared about justice, and I don't recall ever calling myself a hero. I've always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... If an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it!

->I don't know why, [[{{Determinator}} I can't leave though it might be tough]]\\

I got my way, my own way

->No copyright law in the universe is going to stop me!

->The law has always been the tool of whoever happens to hold all the chips. You can't deny that lives were saved because those bastards were put down.

->''"Agent 4 is the type of squid who goes with the flow, even when the waters are raging. This silent squid values freedom and flexibility more than anything, and while it's rumored that Agent 4 helped Marie save the world or whatever, I'm pretty sure that was mostly Marie's idea."''

->Luckily for me, I've never trusted authority figures, be they kings, presidents, or party leaders. Give a man enough power, and he's bound to abuse it, no matter how noble he thinks he is.

->Yeah, let's break some rules!

->C'mon, I don't belong up here, fighting monsters and aliens and supervillains. I just help the little guy. And a big club like this, you tend to forget all about him. So gee whiz, I'm flattered to be asked and all. But no thanks.

->I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.

->Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

->Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

->The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

->It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.

->The more laws, the less justice.

->I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

->The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

->One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

->There is hope in the individual, in you, not in a system, not in the blueprint of a planned society, not in any religious organization, but in you, the individual.

->The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

->Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

->The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right.

->If you're going to be crazy, you have to make sure you're getting paid for it or else they'll lock you up.

->Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

->All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out.

->My mother said that you are never supposed to break the law, but [[UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr my dad]] said that some laws need to be broken.

->I don't know why, [[ChronicHeroSyndrome I can't leave though it might be tough]]\\
But I ain't out of control, [[IGaveMyWord just livin' by my word]]\\

->If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson'''[[note]][[https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/if-law-unjustspurious-quotation Incorrectly as it turns out]][[/note]]

-->'''Michael Howe''', ''Film/TheOutlawMichaelHowe''

-> Agent 4 is the type of squid who goes with the flow, even when the waters are raging. This silent squid values freedom and flexibility more than anything, and while it's rumored that Agent 4 helped Marie save the world or whatever, I'm pretty sure that was mostly Marie's idea.
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}''[='=]s [[https://splatoonus.tumblr.com/post/186223383475/agent-4-team-chaos-agent-4-is-the-type-of-squid official Tumblr]] on '''Agent 4'''

-->-- '''V''', ''Film/VForVendetta'' (quoting Thomas Jefferson)

-->-- '''UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson'''

-> '''[[{{Telepathy}} Haruka Kotoura]]''': What exactly does the ESP Society do?
-> '''[[TheLeader Yuriko Mifune]]''': [[SoapBoxSadie I'm glad you asked]]. The objectives of the [[JapaneseSchoolClub ESP Society and Research Club]] are to find [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic scientific proof]] that PsychicPowers exist so the general populous will acknowledge [[{{TheCassandra}} them]], and [[{{Protectorate}} we protect those]] with PsychicPowers from the [[FantasticRacism prejudiced views of society]]!
-> '''[[BrokenBird Haruka]]''': Um... [[TheDragAlong I don't want]] to prove the existence of PsychicPowers.... [[note]] She has ''[[DarkAndTroubledPast very]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer good]] and [[MindOverManners understandable]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive reasons]]'' [[JustifiedTrope why she wouldn't]]. [[/note]]
-> '''Yuriko''': (''surprised'') What?!
-> (''{{Beat}}'')
-> '''Dai'chi Muroto''': [[FirstNameBasis Yuriko]], you're always so impatient.
-> '''Yuriko''': Well... [[BlatantLies this is my first time meeting someone with ESP]]. I guess I came on a little strong. I'm sorry, [[LastNameBasis Kotoura-chan]].
-> '''Haruka''': It's fine...
-> '''Yuriko''': (''to Haruka'') But you will agree to join the club, right?
-> '''Haruka''': Are you sure? [[NotHyperbole I really]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis can]]'' [[{{Telepathy}} read your mind]]!
-> '''Yuriko''': [[FreakyIsCool That's not a problem]].
-->-- Yuriko recruiting Haruka in ''Manga/KotouraSan'', episode 2.

[[spoiler:'''Viral''']]: Our [[HotBlooded burning blood]] will [[{{Determinator}} cut through fate!]]\\

->You want to make it so everyone's cut from the same cloth. Guess what? I won't let it happen! 'Cause this world is better off with batshit crazy people than it is with you!
-->--'''Ryuko Matoi''', ''Anime/KillLaKill''

->'''Rocket Raccoon:''' What are you? Some saint, all of a sudden? What has the galaxy ever done for you? Why would you wanna to save it?!
->'''Peter Quill:''' Because I'm one of the idiots who lives in it!
-->-- ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''

->A year from now, ten, they'll swing back to the belief that they can ''make'' people... "better". And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
-->-- '''Malcolm Reynolds''', ''Film/{{Serenity}}''

->Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.
-->-- '''Optimus Prime''', ''Film/{{Transformers}}''

->'''The First Ideal:''' [[MartialPacifist Life before death]]. [[ComesGreatResponsibility Strength before weakness]]. [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts Journey before destination]].
->'''The Second Ideal''': I will remember those who have been forgotten.
->'''The Third Ideal''': I will listen to those who have been ignored.
-->--'''The Ideals of the Edgedancers''', ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''

->''"The [[LaResistance Brotherhood]] was [[WeHelpTheHelpless the people's only defense]]. We became [[CrusadingWidower the brothers of murdered siblings, husbands of murdered wives and fathers of murdered children]], led by a murdered man. Once [[LawfulGood we sought to bring the king's justice to the realm]], now we bring the [[ChurchMilitant Lord's]]. Or at least we try"''.

->''My soul is good, but free. Laws have no conscience. Blind order promotes disorder. Goodness cannot be learned just from a book of prayer. Compassion does not wear a uniform. The smallest act of kindness is never wasted. Repay kindness with kindness. Be kind to someone in trouble -- it may be you who needs kindness the next day.''
-->-- Introduction to Chaotic Good, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} Ultimate Campaign''

-->-- '''"It Doesn't Matter"''', ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''

->The Kings are about an idea, you see? Where every man is free to follow his own path, do his own thing. Where every man is a king in his own right.
-->-- '''The King''', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''

-->--'''Albert Camus'''

->Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

->The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

-->--'''Creator/{{Laozi}}'''

->I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower'''

->If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson'''