History Quotes / GoldenMeanFallacy

->''[T]he conception of a bipolar political world has been similarly replaced by a prevalent worldview which rests on the belief that the world is in the grip of [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar a contest]] between [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates two]] [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn superpowers]]. These superpowers contend for dominance and [[NotSoDifferent resemble one another in key respects]]. This image of moral and political symmetry has gained a wide acceptance not only in the Third World, but also among our allies and ourselves. Of my own statements about the false nature of this image, a colleague has said, “She talks about the moral differences between the superpowers, and when we fail to find any moral difference between Afghanistan and Grenada she makes it clear that we are dimwitted.” I believe that anyone who fails to see a difference between Grenada and Afghanistan is not only seriously mistaken but very seriously confused, and that their confusion is a direct consequence of the Soviets’ colossally effective assault on the realms of value and meaning which our civilization holds dear.''

-->-- ''' [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/Cracked Cracked]] ''',[[https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-single-most-entitled-reaction-to-modern-problems]]

-> . To a certain subsection of the internet, nothing is more criminal than caring. About politics, gender, class, representation in video games, anything. They dismiss racists and people trying to stop racism as equally stupid for trying to change the world -- which is ironic, because that attitude is changing the world by making it dumber.

-> . To a certain subsection of the internet, nothing is more criminal than caring. About politics, gender, class, representation in video games, anything. They dismiss racists and people trying to stop racism as equally stupid for trying to change the world -- which is ironic, because that attitude is changing the world by making it dumber. -- -

->''Finally! Something ''normal''. Enough of those ramblings -- in this world there is also a ''sensible'' ideology for people who simply want to do good by everyone. How? By looking at the options on the table and saying: no. I don't want any of those associated with me. I just want to play a regular, inconsequential, doesn’t-really-believe-in-anything type of detective.\\\

->''Finally! Something ''normal''. Enough of those ramblings – in this world there is also a ''sensible'' ideology for people who simply want to do good by everyone. How? By looking at the options on the table and saying: no. I don't want any of those associated with me. I just want to play a regular, inconsequential, doesn’t-really-believe-in-anything type of detective.\\\
Well, you're in luck! After the commies and the fascas tag teamed Revachol, ''sensible'' foreign nations with ''moderately'' deadly artillery came and levelled the city, put all the commies against a neutral wall and turned Revachol into a debt colony / financial buffer zone / whatever the hell they want it to be. They rule the world. And also the RCM, the law enforcement agency you’re part of, so really –- it's a no brainer.\\\

->''Finally! Something ''normal''. Enough of those ramblings – in this world there is also a ''sensible'' ideology for people who simply want to do good by everyone. How? By looking at the options on the table and saying: no. I don’t want any of those associated with me. I just want to play a regular, inconsequential, doesn’t-really-believe-in-anything type of detective.''

->''Well, you’re in luck! After the commies and the fascas tag teamed Revachol, ''sensible'' foreign nations with ''moderately'' deadly artillery came and levelled the city, put all the commies against a neutral wall and turned Revachol into a debt colony / financial buffer zone / whatever the hell they want it to be. They rule the world. And also the RCM, the law enforcement agency you’re part of, so really – it’s a no brainer.''

->''Take this one, it would be ''weird'' to take any of the others.''

-->-- '''Tycho Celchu''', ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries Isard's Revenge]]''

->''[T]he conception of a bipolar political world has been similarly replaced by a prevalent worldview which rests on the belief that the world is in the grip of a contest between [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates two]] [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn superpowers]]. These superpowers contend for dominance and [[NotSoDifferent resemble one another in key respects]]. This image of moral and political symmetry has gained a wide acceptance not only in the Third World, but also among our allies and ourselves. Of my own statements about the false nature of this image, a colleague has said, “She talks about the moral differences between the superpowers, and when we fail to find any moral difference between Afghanistan and Grenada she makes it clear that we are dimwitted.” I believe that anyone who fails to see a difference between Grenada and Afghanistan is not only seriously mistaken but very seriously confused, and that their confusion is a direct consequence of the Soviets’ colossally effective assault on the realms of value and meaning which our civilization holds dear.''

-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MalcomX'''

->''I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.''

-->- '''Tycho Celchu''', ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries Isard's Revenge]]''

-->- '''Creator/IsaacAsimov''', ''[[http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm The Relativity of Wrong]]''

-->---'''Creator/BillBailey'''

->'''Sophie:''' I hate infection. But then again, who likes them? Maybe the people who make penicillin.\\
'''Alex:''' Well, there's two sides to every story.\\
'''Sophie:''' That's true. Except for the Nazis. I can't really see the other side of that argument.

->'''Jeff''': I just think we were both wrong.\\
'''Annie''': Really? Because I'm an eighteen-year-old girl and you made me cry in public.\\
'''Jeff''': Hmm. Okay, maybe I was a ''little'' more wrong.

->'''Jon:''' But that's just innuendo, and that can't be the only thing in a news story!\\
'''Stephen:''' Can't it? I ask you: Does Jon Stewart orally pleasure teamsters for pocket change?\\
'''Jon:''' ...N-no.\\
'''Stephen:''' Well, you are certainly entitled to that opinion. But I bet I can assemble an impressive panel that thinks you do. The truth lies somewhere in between. Let's talk about it for eight weeks and let the public decide.

->''"And I am proud to announce, that in the deepest tradition of democracy, that everyone walked away [from the budget negotiations] unhappy. No one got everything they wanted. The Democrats were unhappy about programs being cut. The Republicans were unhappy that the cuts weren't deep enough. The tea party was unhappy about the placement of the cuts, and also that I was not born in America."''
-->-- Saturday Night Live, [[TruthInTelevision President Obama]] [[HilariousInHindsight parody]]

->''"Suppose I say we need a hundred foot bridge to cross a hundred foot chasm. That makes me an extremist. Someone else says that we don't need a bridge because we don't need to cross the chasm in the first place. That makes him an extremist. The third guy is a centrist because he proposes building a fifty foot bridge ending in mid-air. As an extremist, I'll tell you that the other extremist has a much better grasp of the situation than the centrist. The two extremists have a serious disagreement about what to do. The centrist has no idea what to do and doesn't want to bother figuring it out."''

-->-- '''Cenk Uygur''' of ''Radio/TheYoungTurks,'' in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MQ2a032OUE this]] clip.

->''"Two opposing sides don't necessarily have two compelling arguments. Martin Luther King spoke on that mall in the capital, and he didn't say, 'Remember, folks, those Southern sheriffs with the fire hoses and the German Shepherds, they have a point, too!' No, he said, 'I have a dream. They have a nightmare.' This isn't [[Literature/{{Twilight}} 'Team Edward' and 'Team Jacob']]."''

->'''Hostage's Mother:''' The media are trying to spin this man into some kind of hero...\\
'''[[NewscasterCameo Larry King]]:''' I think we've made a real effort to present all perspectives of--\\
'''Mother:''' [[ArmourPiercingQuestion Since when do we need "all perspectives" of a ]]''[[ArmourPiercingQuestion crime]]''?

->'''Violet:''' Fire!\\
'''Babs:''' Fire?? Oh no! Nononono!\\
'''Jerome:''' I think the stairs are this way!\\
'''Babs:''' I think the stairs are ''that'' way!\\
'''Jerome:''' I don't like to argue. Let's compromise and just stand here.
-->--''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents, The Penultimate Peril part 2''

-->---'''Bill Bailey'''

->''"Two opposing sides don't necessarily have two compelling arguments. Martin Luther King spoke on that mall in the capital, and he didn't say, 'Remember, folks, those Southern sheriffs with the fire hoses and the German Shepherds, they have a point, too!' No, he said, 'I have a dream. They have a nightmare.' This isn't [[Franchise/{{Twilight}} 'Team Edward' and 'Team Jacob.']]"''

->''"'So you're telling me that Copenhagen is located in Denmark, and I think it actually lies in Norway. The Truth, as always, has to be somewhere in the middle.'"''
-->--'''Tage Danielsson''', ''Grallimmatics - The Physiology and Technique of Balderdash''

->'''Sophie''': I hate infection. But then again, who likes them? Maybe the people who make penicillin.
->'''Alex''': Well, there's two sides to every story.
->'''Sophie''': That's true. Except for the Nazis. I can't really see the other side of that argument.

->''"A veteran science journalist recently wrote: 'Reporters are messengers -- their job is to tell, as accurately as they can, what has been said, with the benefit of such insight as their experience allows them to bring, not to second guess whether what is said is right.' That's rubbish. If you are not actually providing any analysis, if you're not effectively 'taking a side', then you are just a messenger, a middleman, a megaphone with ears. If that's your idea of journalism, then my RSS reader is a journalist.

-->-- ''MusicAndLyrics''