History Quotes / MoralMyopia

->'''Flam Kish:''' I am Lieutenant Colonel Flam Kish of the Special Forces. [[YouKilledMyFather You're responsible for the death of my father]], Colonel Pretzel. How dare you oppose the Berman Empire!?\\
'''Jin:''' ''Shut up!'' You're the one who killed ''my'' father!\\

-->--''Film/TheMuppets''

->Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.

->All nationalists have the power of [[SelectiveObliviousness not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts]]. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by 'our' side... The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', ''Notes on Nationalism''

-->--- '''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]]''', ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom''

-->--'''Eda Clawthorne''', WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''

-->--'''Spock''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Dagger of the Mind"

'''Max:''' Ummm, not really.\\

-->--''VideoGame/

->Those guys've turned nasty! They used to play fair, no matter what dirty tricks we pulled!

->And one more thing, all those rich fat bastards living under palm trees, all those bitches who think life's only about putting on makeup? I don't want to hear you speaking your mind from the same perspective. Nothing's worse than being treated like a whore by your own companions. I'll say this once: The next time you decide to tell me what's proper, you'll no longer be one of us. When that happens... I'm going to kill you.

->If only the humans appreciated life as we do, I would not have to kill so many of them.

->All this was funny until she did the same thing to me.

->We’ve done a lotta things we’re not proud of— robbin’ graves, plunderin’ tombs, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking double parking]]... but nobody got hurt! ({{Beat}}) Well, [[ImmediateSelfContradiction maybe somebody got hurt]], but nobody we ''knew''!

->Let me put this in terms you're more familiar with. A man... kills four hundred people. He tells us that it's complicated, that he's misunderstood. Do you think... that Kira would hear his excuses? Or do you think he'd walk him off a bridge?

->What do you call assassins who accuse assassins?

->...and exploded harmlessly (To me, which is what counts) on the street.

->“You have daughters,” I said.
->“Two, going to universities halfway across the world.”
->“And you don’t feel an iota of remorse for [[RevengeByProxy hurting a father through his daughter?]]”
->“Not one,” he replied, staring me in the eye.

->“It has a sort of pitiful sound, although they are only blacks.”

->Interesting. Your Earth people glorify organized violence for forty centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.

->Spend time with corrupt, homicidal, [[BananaRepublic Third World political figures]] and you hear a lot of self-pity. What kind of man throws his political enemies in prison and tortures them to death? Usually it's a guy who feels so sorry for himself that he feels justified doing anything. Killers, by and large, are [[PsychopathicManchild whining losers]]. But that doesn't make them any less dangerous.

->Duncan, you did seem less into integrity the day I convinced twelve of your peers that when you made that u-turn on the freeway and tried to order chalupas from the emergency call box, that your only real crime was loving America.

->''"You know I am a righteous man\\
Of my virtue I am justly proud\\
You know I'm so much purer than\\
The common, vulgar, weak, licentious crowd"''
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', "Hellfire"

->Dan Snyder is the kind of fellow who supports the name Redskins but [[WoundedGazelleGambit will happily cry anti-semitism]] anytime someone dares to criticize him.

-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-movies-plots-given-away-by-characters-names/#ixzz33LsNe9iH on]] ''{{Literature/Lolita}}''

->It’s really not surprising that when his own son committed incest, Jim Bob went from ''“Death to those evil incest doers”'' to ''“Oh, I’ll just ask Officer [=McPedoFlicks=] over there to give him [[StronglyWordedLetter a stern talking to]]”'' real quick. It’s just one of those things that after you read, you shrug and think to yourself, “That’s so Duggar.”

->Ah, yes, the 'Because I say so' defense! As legitimized in the famous case of ''Timmy v. Mom'' and its landmark implications re: cookies before bed.

-->--'''Lewis''' '''"[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]"''' '''Lovhaug''', summarizing ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''

->It's only funny [[ComedicSociopathy when it happens to someone else]]!

->These Americans butcher my men like...well, like I butcher their Jews!

->When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

->How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

->How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

->Whenever I hear anyone arguing over slavery, [[OriginalPositionFallacy I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally]].

->The definition of the true savage is that he laughs when he hurts you; and howls when you hurt him.

->[[FullCircleRevolution Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others]], that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, [[IntellectuallySupportedTyranny there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires]], as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest ''mission civilizatrice''."''

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', "Hellfire"

--> -- '''Wei Wuxian''', ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi''

'''Bastian:''' Exactly, yet you had no hesitation before [[TheydCutYouUp doing]] [[PsychoSerum worse]] to the laguz. I will speed you now to the afterlife, where you may contemplate your life’s egregious mistakes.

->“You have daughters,” I said.\\\
“Two, going to universities halfway across the world.”\\\
“And you don’t feel an iota of remorse for [[RevengeByProxy hurting a father through his daughter?]]”\\\
“Not one,” he replied, staring me in the eye.

'''The Coon''': ...riiight, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint that's what superheroes]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint do]]''.

->As I say, I realize I am playing right into Shapiro's hands by invoking the r-word to describe his beliefs that Arabs are bomb-throwing sewage-dwellers who deserve to be ethnically cleansed. But I happen to think Shapiro is a bit inconsistent on this. His standard of evidence for what constitutes ethnic prejudice seems to vary based on who the target is. When it came to George Zimmerman, Shapiro concluded that "there's no evidence of Zimmerman's racism." Bear in mind that Zimmerman: approached a stranger because they had a Confederate flag tattoo so he could brag about killing Trayvon Martin, got thrown out of a bar for calling someone a "nigger-lover", ranted about his girlfriend sleeping with a "dirty Muslim," tweeted that the lives of "black slime" don't matter, labeled Barack Obama an "ignorant baboon," posted memes comparing Michelle Obama to [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]], and literally had a Confederate flag profile picture and sold paintings he did of said flag. (Oh, and he murdered an unarmed black teenager and proudly posted a photo of the boy's corpse on Twitter, but Shapiro has made it clear that he believes Trayvon Martin deserved to die."

'''King Leonard:''' Your house was ugly!

'''Booker:''' All those ideas lose their luster when the quarterly earnings come in and you find out the other guy's been eating your lunch.

->Whenever I hear anyone arguing over slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

-->'''[[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]]''': My jet-flyer! You unthinking fool-- you've ruined it! You'll pay for that action, Parker-- '''''I promise you, you'll pay!!'''''\\