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->''Be a man, and do not follow me!''
-->-- Epigram added to later editions of ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfYoungWerther'' after it was blamed for causing copycat suicides.

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->''“To tell you the truth, I feel that the fundamental messages I put into ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', such as [[WarIsHell theories about society and war]], are hindered by the design of the giant robot called Gundam and aren’t being conveyed as well as I would like. Children like dinosaurs and giant robots, and ''Gundam''’s popularity [[JustHereForGodzilla is an extension of that]].”''
-->-- '''Creator/YoshiyukiTomino'''



-->-- '''[[Podcast/RiffTrax Rifftrax Live]], Film/ReeferMadness'''

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-->-- '''[[Podcast/RiffTrax Rifftrax Live]], Film/ReeferMadness'''
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->''Al Pacino does not make Montana into a sympathetic character, but he does make him into somebody we can identify with, in a horrified way, if only because of his perfectly understandable motivations. Wouldn't we all like to be rich and powerful, have desirable sex partners, live in a mansion, be catered to by faithful servants -- and hardly have to work? Well, yeah, now that you mention it.''

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->''Al Pacino does not make Montana into a sympathetic character, but he does make him into somebody we can identify with, in a horrified way, if only because of his perfectly understandable motivations. Wouldn't we all like to be rich and powerful, have desirable sex partners, live in a mansion, be catered to by faithful servants -- and hardly have to work? Well, yeah, now that you mention it. Dealing drugs offers the possibility of such a lifestyle, but it also involves selling your soul.''
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-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'' on ''Film/Scarface1983''

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-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'' on ''[[Film/Scarface1983]]''

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-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'' on ''[[Film/Scarface1983]]''
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->''Al Pacino does not make Montana into a sympathetic character, but he does make him into somebody we can identify with, in a horrified way, if only because of his perfectly understandable motivations. Wouldn't we all like to be rich and powerful, have desirable sex partners, live in a mansion, be catered to by faithful servants -- and hardly have to work? Well, yeah, now that you mention it.''
-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'' on ''[[Film/Scarface1983]]''
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-->-- ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'' (while Ryoshi is rifling through a boy's bag)

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-->-- ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'' ''Literature/OkamiSan'' (while Ryoshi is rifling through a boy's bag)
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->''"Yeah, the problem with TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 as a "[[PoesLaw satire]]" is that it presents the Imperium as [[VillainHasAPoint completely right]]. The Emperor MUST subsist on a diet of countless lives or else everyone will die via demons. Dissidence MUST be purged because the risk of Chaos would overpower anything else. Xenophobia IS justified because yes, all the outsiders DO want to kill you. The universe is written in a way that fascism's hatred of outsiders is completely justified.\\
Its like reading Literature/AnimalFarm, except the book tells you that Snowball DID destroy the windmill, Napoleon IS making the farm a better place, and Boxer DID go to a hospital."\\
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"When your "blinkered view of purity" can banish demons and create miracles yeah you are the good guys… in the setting.\\
Honestly it feels like GW is trying to clean up for their failure to actually show the grim dark in the writing. The majority of the writing, fluff and lore definitely don’t illustrate the Imperium as evil or grimdark or whatever. At worst it illustrates a humanity desperately trying to hold on in an eternal heroic last stand. At best it illustrates self sacrifice and nobility against cosmic evil.\\
If they really wanna show the imperium as a bad guy among bad guys they are going to have to step up their writing and improve the way they illustrate their fluff."''
-->-- '''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/qxf1ts/the_imperium_is_driven_by_hate_warhammer_is_not/hlb9ljr/ Anonymous]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/qxf1ts/the_imperium_is_driven_by_hate_warhammer_is_not/hlcx5ij/ comments]]''', on a Website/{{Reddit}} thread about [[https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/19/the-imperium-is-driven-by-hate-warhammer-is-not/ an official article clarifying the Imperium as the bad guys]]
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->''"I didn’t want to be riding in my car and hear some right-wing {{shock jock}} playing my music and hearing my voice."''
-->-- '''Creator/TimRobbins''', on [[https://ew.com/movies/2017/09/02/tim-robbins-bob-roberts-donald-trump/ why]] he [[DefiedTrope never released a soundtrack album]] for ''Film/BobRoberts''
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->'''Creator/JamesMay:''' Don't do this, children, 10-year-olds, and 52-year-olds, if you're watching.\\
'''Creator/RichardHammond:''' Or [[ManChild 52-year-old children]]...\\
'''James May:''' We're not condoning locking other people's bicycles up, or, indeed, unplugging people's electric car, because when they come back and the range just says "2," it's not funny! [[[{{Corpsing}} starts laughing,]] followed by the other two]\\
'''Creator/JeremyClarkson:''' We're not saying you ''should'' do that.\\
'''James May:''' No, you shouldn't.\\
'''Jeremy Clarkson:''' We're just saying you ''can'' do that. [James cracks up again]
-->-- ''Series/TopGearUK''
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->'''Sci-Fi Author:''' In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
->'''Tech Company:''' At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
-->-- '''Alex Blechman''', on [[https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=en Twitter]]
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->''"I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war."''
-->-- '''Creator/FrancoisTruffaut''' in an [[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25124667/it-is-impossible-to-make-an-anti-war/ interview]] by Creator/GeneSiskel
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->''"Marion Barry? Come on, how are you gonna tell little kids to not get high... when their mayor is on crack? [[DrugsAreBad 'Don’t get high. You won’t be nothing.']] [[ControversyProofImage 'I could be Mayor!']]"''
-->-- '''Creator/ChrisRock''', ''Bring The Pain''
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-->-- ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' (while Ryoshi is rifling through a boy's bag)

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-->-- ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'' (while Ryoshi is rifling through a boy's bag)
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->''"And yet, at every turn, the comic keeps trying to make HYDRA look like some unstoppable juggernaut: utilizing seemingly cool iconography; improvements on the world like advancing science, and better test scores, and more jobs; and sure, the concentration camps and restrictions on free speech and stuff are ''mentioned'', but more like glanced over and ignored, especially since we got our 'benevolent leader' Steve Rogers who 'just wants to help.'"

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->''"And yet, at every turn, the comic keeps trying to make HYDRA look like some unstoppable juggernaut: utilizing seemingly cool iconography; improvements on the world like advancing science, and better test scores, and more jobs; and sure, the concentration camps and restrictions on free speech and stuff are ''mentioned'', but more like glanced over and ignored, especially since we got our 'benevolent leader' Steve Rogers who 'just wants to help.'"'"''
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->''"And yet, at every turn, the comic keeps trying to make HYDRA look like some unstoppable juggernaut: utilizing seemingly cool iconography; improvements on the world like advancing science, and better test scores, and more jobs; and sure, the concentration camps and restrictions on free speech and stuff are ''mentioned'', but more like glanced over and ignored, especially since we got our 'benevolent leader' Steve Rogers who 'just wants to help.'"
-->-- '''Creator/{{Linkara}}''' in his review of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'', ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''
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->''My grandpa used to tell me all the time that if I kept sucking my thumb, I would grow a monkey's [tail]!! It just made me suck it more.''
-->-- '''[[https://www.iusedtobelieve.com/bad_habits/sucking_my_thumb/sucking_my_thumb_d3.php "Monkey Child"]]''', ''Website/IUsedToBelieve''
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->'''Stan:''' That's not true. You can't get high off of cat urine, can you?
->'''Mr. Mackey:''' Well, it's a it's not actually cat urine, but male cats, when they're marking their territory, uh spread concentrated urine to fend off other male cats and... a-and that could get you really high. M'kay? Re-really reeeally high. Okay? (''{{Beat}}'') Probably shou-shouldn't have told you that just now. Hm'kay? Tha, that was probably bad.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "Major Boobage"

->''"You. Friends. Fun. Drink. Hot girls. You're hot. Drink more. Expensive cars. Ass, drink, ass, money, you in a tuxedo, threesomes, vodka, pussy, drink, drink, drink, you, drink, Vegas, fun, pussy, you, in a tuxedo, fucking this girl, vodka, drink drink drink drink it all you fucking pussy! MORE TUXEDOS, MORE CARS, MORE PUSSY, MORE VODKA, DRINK DRINK DRINK!"''
->''"Please drink responsibly."''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "Freemium Isn't Free"
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-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/little-green-blobs-in-bonded-polycarbite-armour-resurrection-of-the-daleks/ Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks}} "Resurrection of the Daleks"]]

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-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/little-green-blobs-in-bonded-polycarbite-armour-resurrection-of-the-daleks/ Phil El Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks}} "Resurrection of the Daleks"]]
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-->-- ''Literature/FannyHill''

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-->-- ''Literature/FannyHill''
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->''If I have painted vice in all its [[HaveAGayOldTime gayest]] colours, if I have deck'd it with flowers, it has been solely to make the worthier, the solemner sacrifice of it, to virtue.''
-->-- ''Literature/FannyHill''
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->''"I do solemnly swear I will not go home and try any of the stupid crap I saw those guys do, even though it would make me super cool."''
-->-- The oath that '''Creator/TheDangerCommittee''' makes the audience swear before every performance

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-->--''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' (while Ryoshi is rifling through a boy's bag)

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-->--''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' -->-- ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' (while Ryoshi is rifling through a boy's bag)



-->--''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/drone-23-4 Drone 23.4]]

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-->--''Literature/{{Worm}}'', -->-- ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/drone-23-4 Drone 23.4]]



-->--'''Anthony Swofford''', ''Jarhead''

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-->--'''Anthony -->-- '''Anthony Swofford''', ''Jarhead''



-->--''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks''

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-->--''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks''
-->-- ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks''



-->--'''Creator/DenisLeary''', ''No Cure for Cancer''

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-->--'''Creator/DenisLeary''', -->-- '''Creator/DenisLeary''', ''No Cure for Cancer''



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->''"I hope that by reading this manual, you will be thoroughly encouraged to become a farmer."''
-->-- '''Meti's Sword Manual''', ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''



->I'm pretty sure it was also meant to be ''Smallville''[='=]s entry into the entertainment cycle surrounding Alcohol Awareness Week. If so, I'm going to suggest that the point was not so much missed as completely misunderstood and trampled upon.
-->--'''[[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville10-ep15 Julian Finn]]''' on ''Smallville'', "Fortune"

->Wey-hey! An honest to God great Chakotay moment when he [[TalkToTheFist punches Dalby in the face]]! Unfortunately he was using this as an example of how the Marquis way is not the way to go, whereas I was thinking it would make a far more interesting show!
-->--'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/02/voyager-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Learning Curves"

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->I'm ->''"I'm pretty sure it was also meant to be ''Smallville''[='=]s entry into the entertainment cycle surrounding Alcohol Awareness Week. If so, I'm going to suggest that the point was not so much missed as completely misunderstood and trampled upon.
-->--'''[[http://www.
upon."''
-->-- '''[[http://www.
supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville10-ep15 Julian Finn]]''' on ''Smallville'', "Fortune"

->Wey-hey! ->''"Wey-hey! An honest to God great Chakotay moment when he [[TalkToTheFist punches Dalby in the face]]! Unfortunately he was using this as an example of how the Marquis way is not the way to go, whereas I was thinking it would make a far more interesting show!
-->--'''[[http://www.
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-->-- '''[[http://www.
docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/02/voyager-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Learning Curves"






->'''Bender''': You're watching WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, the show that does not advocate the cool crime of robbery.
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television"

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->'''Bender''': You're ->''"You're watching WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, the show that does not advocate the cool crime of robbery.
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'',
robbery."''
-->-- '''Bender''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'',
"Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television"
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->''"There is talk that many Vietnam films are antiwar, that the message is war is inhumane and look what happens when you train young American men to fight and kill, they turn their fighting and killing everywhere, they ignore their targets and desecrate the entire country, shooting fully automatic, forgetting they were trained to aim. But actually, Vietnam war films are all pro-war, no matter what the supposed message, what Kubrick or Coppola or Stone intended.''"

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->''"There is talk that many Vietnam films are antiwar, that the message is war is inhumane and look what happens when you train young American men to fight and kill, they turn their fighting and killing everywhere, they ignore their targets and desecrate the entire country, shooting fully automatic, forgetting they were trained to aim. But actually, Vietnam war films are all pro-war, no matter what the supposed message, what Kubrick or Coppola or Stone intended. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson in Omaha or San Francisco or Manhattan will watch the films and weep and decide once and for all that war is inhumane and terrible, and they will tell their friends at church and their family this, but Corporal Johnson at Camp Pendleton and Sergeant Johnson at Travis Air Force Base and Seaman Johnson at Coronado Naval Station and Spec 4 Johnson at Fort Bragg and Lance Corporal Swofford at Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base watch the same films and are excited by them, because the magic brutality of the films celebrates the terrible and despicable beauty of their fighting skills.''"
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-->-- '''[[WebVideo/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''' on ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''

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-->-- '''[[WebVideo/ZeroPunctuation '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''' on ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''
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-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/04/little-green-blobs-in-bonded.html Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks}} "Resurrection of the Daleks"]]

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-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/04/little-green-blobs-in-bonded.html eruditorumpress.com/blog/little-green-blobs-in-bonded-polycarbite-armour-resurrection-of-the-daleks/ Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks}} "Resurrection of the Daleks"]]
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->'''Bender''': You're watching WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, the show that does not advocate the really cool crime of burglary.

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->'''Bender''': You're watching WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, the show that does not advocate the really cool crime of burglary.robbery.
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->'''Huey''': Tell 'em that marijuana isn't nearly as dangerous as tobacco or alcohol, but it will make you say stupid things and laugh at stuff that ain't funny. That's a very good reason not to use it!\\
'''Caesar''': Huey, you forget that most people don't find smiling and joviality as offensive as you do.
-->--''TheBoondocks''

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->'''Huey''': ->'''Huey:''' Tell 'em that marijuana isn't nearly as dangerous as tobacco or alcohol, but it will make you say stupid things and laugh at stuff that ain't funny. That's a very good reason not to use it!\\
'''Caesar''': '''Caesar:''' Huey, you forget that most people don't find smiling and joviality as offensive as you do.
-->--''TheBoondocks''
-->--''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks''
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->Wey-hey! An honest to God great Chakotay moment when he [[TalkToTheFist punches Dalby in the face]]! Unfortunately he was using this as an example of how the Marquis way is not the way to go, whereas I was thinking it would make a far more interesting show!
-->--'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/02/voyager-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Learning Curves"

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