History Quotes / GodwinsLaw

->'''Jon:''' Please stop calling people "Hitler" when you disagree with them. It demeans you, it demeans your opponent, and, to be honest, '''[[InsultToRocks it demeans Hitler]]'''. That guy worked too many years, too hard, to be that evil, to have any Tom, Dick, and Harry come along and say, "hey, you're bein' Hitler." No, you know who was Hitler? Hitler!

-> ''It's "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler.''
--> -- LewisBlack, on [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-12-2010/back-in-black---glenn-beck-s-nazi-tourette-s Glenn Beck's frequent invocation of the Nazis]]


-> ''Don't have time to make a protest sign? We've got you covered. We have "I disagree with you but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler"...''
--> -- Announcing the Rally to Restore Sanity.

--> -- On points of style for mass rallies.

-->-- '''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''', [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-10-28/ 10-28-2006]]

-- '''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''', [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-10-28/ 10-28-2006]]

->''I was waiting to see how long it would take the increasingly hysterical fans on the Wilco site to mention Volkswagen’s checkered past. It happened on page 11 of the thread and then flared up big time...

->''This conversation proves that the only thing dumber than an argument on the internet is the same argument in real life.''
-->--'''Marten''', from QuestionableContent, [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1020 here]]

-->--'''A NaNoWriMo moderator''', [[http://nanowrimo.org/en/forum_comments/1964969 here]].

->''Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.''
-->--'''RogerEbert''' [[spoiler:watching an Andrew Dice Clay comedy act]].

-->--'''RogerEbert''' [[spoiler:reviewing an Andrew Dice Clay comedy act]]

->'''[=LuigiMaster=]:''' [[Main/HeroWorshipper It's especially depressing too that I looked up to you]] and you react like a fucking Nazi.
->'''Robert The Small:''' Because making fun of someone is equal to killing jews.

-> '''Informant:''' ''General, Italian forces have entered Egypt.''
-> '''General:''' ''As I expected. This is a foolish move by Mussolini, but like Hitler he will no doubt force his commanders to--''
-> '''Informant:''' ''Hey, Godwin's Law.''
-> '''General:''' ''Dammit. *{{beat}}* You know, this may become a problem.''

-> '''Krebs:''' ''In most countries of the world your name is synonymous with pure evil. In Germany itself it is basically illegal to say your name out loud. Few would argue that you remain the most infamous and ruthless dictator the world has ever seen.''
-> '''Hitler:''' ''I don't care about that shit. [[CreatorProvincialism I want to know what the Americans think about me.]]''
-> '''Krebs:''' ''Mein Führer... The people...''
-> '''Jodl:''' ''The people in America call everybody they disagree with "Hitler" to the point that it's completely trite and meaningless.''
-> '''Hitler:''' ''[[GlassesPull ...]]''
-> '''Hitler:''' ''Do you have any idea how hard I have worked!? To become the most singularly evil person to have lived!? To be, for generations to come, the most feared and repellent figure on Earth!? I cannot believe this shit. Tell me what these fucking Americans are saying. What, do you think you need to protect me? That I can't handle it? I am the [[Music/OzzyOsbourne Prince of Darkness]]! I was belched from the fiery depths of hell!''
-> '''Bugdorf:''' ''The Democrats call conservative activists "brownshirts" and claim they wear Swastikas!''
-> '''Hitler:''' ''Fucking hell! The people with those little "Don't Tread On Me" flags?''
-> '''Bugdorf:''' ''And everybody draws your little moustache on their political opponents.''
-> '''Hitler:''' ''You cannot be fucking serious. I have been wearing this ridiculous thing for years... So that it might be the very symbol of evil! Not some convenient talisman for unthinking Americans. What good is it being this boundlessly evil? Systematically killing everybody who disagrees with you just to be turned into a cartoon character like fucking LexLuthor!? To think I could have had a normal moustache all along like [[JosefStalin Stalin]]! I have had it with these Americans. If they cannot tell the difference between a genocidal maniac and those fucking teabaggers they can all go to hell!''
-->- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4lJ9vsZjMU&p=751014BC83DD7643&index=36 Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other Nazis]] (a ''Film/{{Downfall}} GagSub where Hitler's goons inform him about his VillainDecay at the hands of American protesters using this trope)

->''You know the rule - all debate ends when it gets to Hitler.''
--> -- ''GothamCentral''

-->--A YouTube comment in response to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rehZ8k8JMwk&feature=related David Beckham's defense of Thierry Henry's handball]].

-->-- '''JonStewart''' on GodwinsLaw

->''I was waiting to see how long it would take the increasingly hysterical fans on the Wilco site to mention Volkswagen’s checkered past. It happened on page 11 of the thread and then flared up big time...
-> Oh. My. God. Jeff Tweedy IS a Nazi!! Oh crap, now I see that the people condemning him were absolutely right, he has sold us all out! I bet marrying my Jewish sister was just a ruse to further his white supremacist agenda. All that liberal twaddle he spouts at his concerts is just a front ... Dammit, that’s the last time that turncoat comes to our Yom Kippur services!...Have I ruined my chance to get a free Volkswagen?''

[[AC: From TheDailyShow With JonStewart]]

->'''[=LuigiMaster=]:''' [[{{Main/HeroWorshipper}} It's especially depressing too that I looked up to you]] and you react like a fucking Nazi.

-->--'''GeorgeOrwell''', "Politics and the English Language", 1946

--> -- ''{{Webcomic/XKCD}}, [[http://xkcd.com/261/ Regarding Mussolini]]''

-->--A YouTube comment in response to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rehZ8k8JMwk&feature=related David Beckham's defense of Thierry Henry's handball]].

-> ''Don't have time to make a protest sign? We've got you covered. We have "I disagree with you but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler"...''

->''I was waiting to see how long it would take the increasingly hysterical fans on the Wilco site to mention Volkswagen’s checkered past. It happened on page 11 of the thread and then flared up big time...
-> Oh. My. God. Jeff Tweedy IS a Nazi!! Oh crap, now I see that the people condemning him were absolutely right, he has sold us all out! I bet marrying my Jewish sister was just a ruse to further his white supremacist agenda. All that liberal twaddle he spouts at his concerts is just a front ... Dammit, that’s the last time that turncoat comes to our Yom Kippur services!...Have I ruined my chance to get a free Volkswagen?''

-->--'''Cardinal Roger Mahony''' on the Arizona immigration law

-->--'''{{Cracked}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-innocent-sounding-topics-that-are-guaranteed-flame-wars/ 6 Innocent-Sounding Topics That Are Guaranteed Flame Wars]]" (4 of the examples have Godwin's Law demonstrations!)

->"Hitler was a good person among his friends (if he had any), maybe he didn't mean to do what he did as well?"

'''{{Dilbert}}:''' What's that?\\

-- '''{{Dilbert}}''', [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-10-28/ 10-28-2006]]

--> -- ''{{XKCD}}, [[http://xkcd.com/261/ Regarding Mussolini]]''

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->'''Stuart Slade''': Ahh, all is light. As I said, terminally stupid. I gave up reading their Nazi-loving drivel along, long time ago.
--> -- In response to criticism of ''The Big One'' by SpaceBattles.com users

->'''DonBosco''': Just for a fun note, according to Stuart Slade, we are all Nazi-lovers here. Of course, I don't think that any of the criticisms raised in this thread have had anything to do with the Nazis, but what the heck. Disagree with TBO and you love the Nazis, it's all so obvious!
--> -- SpaceBattles.com user, [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=112713&page=9 in response to the above]]

-->--''KeithOlbermann'', special comment in 2007.

->"I mean, that's the morality of the Holocaust. 'Well, it's only [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob a small percentage]],' you know. 'I mean, [[EatTheRich it's not you, it's somebody else]].'"

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-->- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4lJ9vsZjMU&p=751014BC83DD7643&index=36 Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other Nazis]] (a [[DerUntergang Downfall]] GagSub where Hitler's goons inform him about his VillainDecay at the hands of American protesters using this trope)

-->--'''GeorgeOrwell''', "Politics and the English Language"

-> '''Hitler:''' ''Do you have any idea how hard I have worked!? To become the most singularly evil person to have lived!? To be, for generations to come, the most feared and repellent figure on Earth!? I cannot believe this shit. Tell me what these fucking Americans are saying. What, do you think you need to protect me? That I can't handle it? I am the [[OzzyOsbourne Prince of Darkness]]! I was belched from the fiery depths of hell!''

-> ''I realize that you're just stating an opinion, but what you're doing is going back to WorldWarII all over again. {{Hitler}} wanting to erase Jews from society -- you want to erase JustinBieber...''
-->-- A JustinBieber fan [[http://www.popeater.com/2010/05/28/shaved-bieber-justin-bieber-fan/ responds]] to the creation of a tool for blocking him on the internet.

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