History Quotes / HobbesWasRight

-->--'''Count Magnus Lee''' on humanity, ''Anime/VampireHunterD''

->'''You''': Wait, is the Kingdom of Conscience really about doing things or just preserving [[CrapsackWorld the status quo]]?\\
'''Empathy''': Do you believe the status quo is preferable to chaos and bloodshed?\\

->'''Empathy''': Do you believe [[CrapsackWorld the status quo]] is preferable to chaos and bloodshed?\\

'''Empathy''': [[ArmorPiercingResponse Then you've never lived through *real* chaos]]... Sometimes, in the face of great disaster, defending the status quo *is* progress.

'''Player''': No.\\
'''Empathy''': Then you've never lived through ''real'' chaos...

->'''Schneizel:''' Even civilians who have rejected war depend on the police, don't they? Everyone understands that crime cannot be stopped because people can't help the desires they have. That's why we don't need to win hearts or use ideology. Why not bring peace to the world using a system backed by force? In ten days, [[spoiler:[[KillSat Damocles]] will enter the airspace of the United States of China and then switch over to secondary acceleration. After that, we're scheduled to ascend three-hundred kilometers above the surface. From that position, [[NukeEm we will hit every warmongering nation with F.L.E.I.J.A.s.]]]]\\

-->-- '''Nietzsche'''

-->-- '''Creator/OrsonWelles''' as Harry Lime in ''Film/TheThirdMan'', 1949 [[note]]The cuckoo clock is actually a German invention[[/note]]

-->-- '''Howard Beale''', ''{{Film/Network}}''

-->-- '''Creator/VladimirLenin'''

->It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization.
-->-- '''Ludwig von Mises''' on the UsefulNotes/ColdWar

->People don't want freedom. They want boundaries and rules… Protection… From invaders, and from themselves. People need a leader who can give them both the support and constraints to keep chaos at bay. You give them '''that''', and they'll follow. And that's where '''I''' come in.

->People don't want freedom. They want boundaries and rules… Protection… From invaders, and from themselves. People need a leader who can give them both the support and constraints to keep chaos at bay. You give them '''that''', and they'll follow. And that's where I come in.

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/02/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/TheThickOfIt''

'''Schneizel:''' Even civilians who have rejected war depend on the police, don't they? Everyone understands that crime cannot be stopped because people can't help the desires they have. That's why we don't need to win hearts or use ideology. Why not bring peace to the world using a system backed by force? In ten days, [[spoiler:[[KillSat Damocles]] will enter the airspace of the United States of China and then switch over to secondary acceleration. After that, we're scheduled to ascend three-hundred kilometers above the surface. From that position, [[NukeEm we will hit every warmongering nation with F.L.E.I.J.A.s.]]]]\\

->'''Schneizel:''' Cornelia, what is it that people wish for? Starvation and poverty; discrimination and corruption; war and terrorism--They wish for the problems flooding the world to go away. People desperately cannot understand each other. And so...\\
'''Cornelia:''' I understand your ideals, [[AMillionIsAStatistic but to do this to the civilians...]]\\
'''Schneizel:''' Yes. Even civilians who have rejected war depend on the police, don't they? Everyone understands that crime cannot be stopped because people can't help the desires they have. That's why we don't need to win hearts or use ideology. Why not bring peace to the world using a system backed by force? In ten days, [[KillSat Damocles]] will enter the airspace of the United States of China and then switch over to secondary acceleration. After that, we're scheduled to ascend three-hundred kilometers above the surface. From that position, [[NukeEm we will hit every warmongering nation with F.L.E.I.J.A.s.]]\\
'''Cornelia:''' Wait! Shouldn't they be used to defeat [[The Chessmaster Lelouch]]?! This will devastate the world. You're going to control people through fear?!\\

'''Schneizel:''' [[AGodAmI Then I shall become a god.]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeansIf that is what people want me to become to give them peace.]]

->The room being hung around with a collection of the portraits of remarkable men, among them were those of Bacon, Newton and Locke. Hamilton asked me who they were. I told him they were my trinity of the three greatest men the world had ever produced, naming them. He paused for some time: 'The greatest man,' said he, 'that ever lived, was JuliusCaesar.'

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-->--''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''

-->--'''Howard Beale''', ''{{Film/Network}}''

-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Kalki''

-->--'''Creator/MartinAmis''', ''Time's Arrow''

-->--'''Vir Cotto''', ''Series/BabylonFive'' ("No Surrender, No Retreat")

-->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "The Maquis Pt. 1"

-->--'''Megatron's''' Tech Specs motto, ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1''

-->--'''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pathologic/pathologic2.htm John Szczepaniak]]''' on ''{{VideoGame/Pathologic}}''

-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/podcast/why-our-favorite-tv-shows-are-so-bleak/ "Why Our Favorite TV Shows Are So Bleak"]]

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/02/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/TheThickOfIt''

-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

-->--'''Sideshow Bob''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ("Sideshow Bob Roberts")

-->--'''UsefulNotes/LouisXV'''

-->--'''Nietzsche'''

-->--'''David Hume''', ''A Treatise of Human Nature''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson''' on UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton, 1811

-->--'''Creator/AldousHuxley''', ''Ends and Means'' (1937)

-->--'''Creator/EzraPound''', ''What is Money For?''

-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell'''

-->--'''Creator/VladimirLenin'''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''', speaking in Rome on 1.20.1927 in praise of Mussolini

-->--'''UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini''', 1934

-->--'''Ludwig von Mises''' on the UsefulNotes/ColdWar

-->--'''Creator/AynRand''', ''Apollo and Dionysus''

-->--'''F.A. Hayek''' on Chilean dictator UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet

-->--'''Creator/ChristopherHitchens''' on UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar

-->--'''Chris Hedges''' on the Falklands War, ''War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning''

-->--'''Kenneth Minogue''', ''Politics: A Very Short Introduction''

-->--'''Creator/HunterSThompson''', ''Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72''

-->--'''Creator/NormanMailer'''

-->--'''Noam Chomsky''' on anthropocentric climate change, ''Understanding Power''

-->--'''Kimberly Guilfoyle''', ''[[Creator/FoxNewsChannel The Five]]'' 8.25.14

-->--'''Sam Harris''', ''The End of Faith''

-->--'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', review of ''Literature/MeinKampf''

-->--'''Edward Bernays''', ''Propaganda''

->In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Creator/LeonardoDaVinci and [[TheRenaissance the Renaissance]]. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace--and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!

->In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, LeonardoDaVinci and [[TheRenaissance the Renaissance]]. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace--and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!
-->-- '''OrsonWelles''' as Harry Lime in ''Film/TheThirdMan'', 1949 [[note]]The cuckoo clock is actually a German invention[[/note]]