History Quotes / NotSoDifferentRemark

->'''Number Two:''' It doesn't matter which [[ColdWar "side"]] runs the Village.\\

->''"Armstrong ends his life with a very cliché, 'We're not so different, you and I.' This is classic villain talk. Villains are always saying this to the heroes. However, while it is a cliché, it also speaks to a fundamental storytelling truth, which is that, in really good stories, [[ShadowArchetype the villain is almost always a dark reflection of the hero]]. In a lot of stories, the villain will embody some negative trait within the hero, so that when the hero defeats the villain, they're also overcoming that dark part of themselves. And like with so much of his dialogue, [[VillainHasAPoint there is more truth than falsehood to what Armstrong says here]].''

->''"In Armstrong's ideal world, good people '''would''' be free to do good, just so long as they [[MightMakesRight possessed the necessary strength]]. Like I've said multiple times already, this is intelligent writing. His worldview isn't only a playground for atrocities; there is also the possibility for good. And the hero's actions aren't really invalidating the villain's worldview. In fact, Raiden's actions could be used to argue in favor of Armstrong's worldview. Even in defeat and in death, Armstrong doesn't [[ThisCannotBe lose control]], doesn't [[VillainousBreakdown lose his composure the way so many other action video game villains do]]. [[FaceDeathWithDignity His intellect and his charisma remain]], [[DefiantUntilTheEnd until his very last breath]]."''

'''Po:''' If only I had a dumpling for every time a villain told me how much we had in common.

->'''Yu:''' ''You and I we ain't so different\\

'''Adachi:''' ''And it looked half empty for me''\\

->'''Adachi:''' ''And it looked half empty for me''\\
->'''Both:''' ''Maybe that one glass made the path we took, who knows?''

I guess I had more blessings
Without it, got belligerent
But I totally understand
Glass was half full for mine''

->'''Yu:''' ''You and I we ain't so different
I guess I had more blessings\\
Without it, got belligerent\\
But I totally understand\\
Glass was half full for mine''\\

->I guess I had more blessings\\
->Without it, got belligerent\\
->But I totally understand\\
->Glass was half full for mine''\\

I guess I had more blessings\\
Without it, got belligerent\\
But I totally understand\\
Glass was half full for mine''\\
'''Adachi:''' ''And it looked half empty for me''\\
'''Both:''' ''Maybe that one glass made the path we took, who knows?''

-->'''Yu:''' ''You and I we ain't so different\\

->'''Lei''': Hurts to say it... But you remind me of me. The old me... I saw what others had and hated them for it. Wondered why they deserved so much and I so little. [[CharacterDevelopment But I had it all wrong.]] Most of them hadn't gotten where they were just by asking for it. And what little they've done was only a fraction of what they'd tried to achieve. That's just how it goes. We don't always get what we want. Sometimes what we wanted was never ours to take. And sometimes all we can do is try to be better. Do the best you can and hope that it's enough in the end! Maybe that doesn't make much sense but...but...<sigh> I've made a lot of mistakes. Still do, from time to time...

->'''Dalek:''' I am... alone in the universe?\\

'''Dalek:''' So... are... you. We are...the same.\\

'''Dalek:''' The Daleks must survive!\\

'''Dalek:''' ...You would make a good Dalek.

'''The Doctor:''' ''(rounds on it)'' We're not the same! I'm not... no, wait. Maybe we are. You're right, yeah, OK. You've got a point. 'Cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you [[PayEvilUntoEvil deserve]]. ''(terrible smile)'' "Exterminate."

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->Maybe you're the kind of person who remembers which bush to burn in ''VideoGame/{{The Legend of Zelda|I}}'' to find the labyrinth, or maybe you're the kind of person who remembers the score to some sports game years ago. Maybe you like to go around in a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' uniform, or you like to go around in a sports uniform. And I don't mean like a sports T-shirt, but the same jersey that the players in the game wear. Whatever the case, maybe, somehow, in our own ways, we're all nerds.
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''Atari Sports''

->Not unlike America's views on Russia, many Russians see America as a hellscape of Orwellian spying, corrupt justice, and trial-less imprisonment. And if you think it's preposterous that other countries might see us that way... you're probably forgetting that the NSA, War On Drugs, and Guantanamo Bay exist. To be perfectly frank: the US of A are oblivious wangs. The kind of uncircumcised worm that flutters stickily through gym short pant holes.
-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-honest-assessments-about-chance-world-war-3/ 6 Honest Assessments About The Chance Of World War 3]]''

->Whether it's the classical music playing in the background, the omelette or the fine suits, Fisk repeatedly asserts his own humanity and civility. No matter where the day takes him, no matter how it plays out, Fisk at least starts the day as a refined and cultured gentleman. [[FauxAffablyEvil It is a lie]], but it is no greater a lie than that told by Matt Murdock...Vladimir suggests that Fisk prohibits people from using his name as an attempt to build himself into something [[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed more than a mere man]]. It might be true. ''Daredevil'' repeatedly suggests that both the protagonist and antagonist are victims in their own ways. Perhaps both Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk are ultimately products of the urban environment. Perhaps they simply embody and express different facets of the city.
-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/04/20/daredevil-shadows-in-the-glass-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/Daredevil2015''

->If you look carefully at this article, you may notice I've drawn some subtle parallels to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump in several dozen places. Musk and Trump do not share the exact same vision of the future, and don't have the same ideology. But they are absolutely coming from the same toxic [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney "I'm a billionaire and no one has the right to question me" mindset]], and are exploiting many of the same flaws in the system to get ahead.
-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-it-was-always-dumb-to-worship-elon-musk-as-savior/ Why It Was Always Dumb To Worship Elon Musk As A Savior]]

-> WebVideo/{{Jreg}}, "Can't you see you're all the same to me, oh look I shot a Nazi, oh look, I shot a Commie, oh look, I shot a Righty or did I shoot a Lefty, you’re all the same to me".

->[[Creator/MichaelMoore Mr. Moore]] can’t help himself, he uses footage of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler lip-syncing a [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] speech. Much has been made of Mr. Trump’s questionable maturity. He has a kindred spirit in Michael Moore.
-->-- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_11/9#cite_note-28 John Anderson]] on ''[[Film/Fahrenheit119 Fahrenheit 11/9]]''

->''"Believe me we've managed to synthesize right wing nihilism too, the world looks like it's falling apart if you're a democratic socialist, classical conservative, centrist or libertarian, only the neolibs and neocons are enjoying the hellscape that is the 2016 election and beyond"''
-->--'''Whaylon''', comment on WebVideo/{{Sarah Z}}'s video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2YptT8l3jM Rise of the Doomer: Why So Many People Are Giving Up]]

->At this point, I would say that most committed voters would rather die than vote against their party. To the average Kentucky GOP voter, it's not about which party would benefit them or the state, it's about not voting for the people who are literally satanists plotting to destroy all of civilization.

->I mean, progressives sort of see it the same way in reverse, but [[AtLeastIAdmitIt I like to think we have a better grasp on reality]].
-->--'''@/{{Clarste}}''', [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000a18674100&page=14703 The General U.S. Politics Thread]]

->'''Screenwriter''': And so eventually, [[Franchise/JamesBond Bond]] and [[BigBad Safin]] get into a conversation, and Safin is like, "You know, we're not so different, you and I."\\
'''Producer''': [[LampshadeHanging Oh, man, villains love telling heroes how they're not so different from each other.]]\\
'''Screenwriter''': Oh yeah, they can't get enough of saying that.
-->-- ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'' on ''Film/NoTimeToDie''

->Oh, am I not being clear? Pity. I understand you thoroughly. We both found our ruination upon a hill of our regrets, didn't we? [[ResurrectedForAJob We both drew from the Earth a responsibility we had no way of understanding.]] Maybe that's why we're drawn together, time after time....
-->-- '''[[KnightInSourArmor Archer]]''' to [[KnightInShiningArmor Saber]], ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged''

->As we've noted before, almost all of these attempts to angrily and bitterly deconstruct the underlying moral premises of ''Series/DoctorWho'' are hollow, and depend on the Doctor not making very obvious responses. In this case the "you created a race of genocidal mutants who slaughter billions in an indiscriminate campaign of racial purity, whereas I have on occasion not been able to save everybody" argument, which would be a good refutation to most of Davros's lines.
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2013/12/these-two-strands-together-stolen.html Phil Sandifer]]''' on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]"

->''"You are a broken person who had ill intentions, and wandered aimlessly into a path you had no idea how to complete, and yet somehow along the way you found a heart. You sound like all of us. Welcome to the Mighty Nein."''
-->-- '''Veth''', to [[spoiler:Essek]], ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'', "The Fancy and the Fooled"
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->The de facto response to one [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalism]] isn't always nuance; often it’s just another fundamentalism.
-->-- '''Katelyn Beaty''', [[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/april-web-only/rachel-held-evans-returns-to-church.html "Rachel Held Evans Returns to Church"]], ''Christianity Today'' April 16, 2015

->'''UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson:''' "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one nation to dissolve the political bands that..." Sounds rather good actually, if I say so myself... "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created-" (''knock on door'') Oh bother... "that all men are created-" (''knock'') What a bore... "all men are crea-" (''knock'') Come in!\\
'''Slave''': Massa Jefferson?\\
'''Jefferson''': Yes Leroy, what is it? I've told you before that I don't want to be disturbed when I'm at my desk!\\
'''Leroy''': Massa Jefferson, you want me to bring you a cup of tea?\\
'''Jefferson''': Leroy, when I'm at my desk I don't need a cup of tea! Later I'll be retiring to the library and you can serve me there properly and well. Now get away, you're behaving like a field hand!\\
'''Leroy''': I'm sorry Massa Jefferson! \\
'''Jefferson''': (''returning to his desk'') "...are created...''equal''."
-->-- '''GA Cohen''', "Thomas Jefferson Penning the Declaration of Independence"

->Remember, the [[DeathRow death penalty]] is murder.
-->-- '''Robert Drew'''

->Once in a hotel dining area I said, rather too loudly, "I loathe prunes." "So do I", came an unexpected six-year-old voice from another table. Sympathy was instantaneous.
-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis''', "Three Ways of Writing Stories for Children"

->A hundred times a day when we go mocking our neighbor we are really mocking ourselves; we abominate in other those faults which are so manifestly our own, and with a miraculous lack of shame and perspicacity, are astonished by them.
-->-- '''Montaigne'''

->[[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]], suspecting [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt the president]] was murdered, insisted that [Eleanor Roosevelt] have an autopsy performed. "Marshal Stalin doesn't know we are ''not'' like that," an ironic response in light of later events.
-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Point to Point Navigation''

->[[[Creator/KlausKinski Kinski]] and [[Creator/WernerHerzog Herzog]]] were both ridiculous, flaming egomaniacs of only slightly different stripes — Kinski’s ugliness was flailing, external; a flash fire that burned itself, and himself, out. Herzog’s rage was of the passive-aggressive, festering sort, and therefore more dangerous... Who was more sick? Werner Herzog was the visual version of Kinski’s extremity. Kinski [[ThePrimaDonna exploited hearts]]; Herzog [[PrimaDonnaDirector exploited landscapes and native peoples]].
-->-- '''Cintra Wilson''', "Devoured by Demons", ''Slate'' April 22, 2004

->Ni är all lika goda kålsupare. [[note]]Roughly translates to "You're all equally good cabbage drinkers." A somewhat derogatory phrase that have similar meaning to "Birds of a feather". And in case you're wondering, "kålsupare" refers to someone who slurps loudly when eating cabbage-soup.[[/note]]
-->-- '''Swedish saying'''

->"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
-->-- '''John Kenneth Galbraith'''

->The second myth is that in its appetite for death as spectacle the Triple Alliance was fundamentally different from Europe. Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death imaginable, free entertainment that drew huge crowds. London, the historian Fernand Braudel tells us, held public executions eight times a year at Tyburn, just north of Hyde Park. (The diplomat Samuel Pepys paid a shilling for a good view of a Tyburn hanging in 1664; watching the victim beg for mercy, he wrote, was a crowd of “at least 12 or 14,000 people.”) In most if not all European nations, the bodies were impaled on city walls and strung along highways as warnings. “The corpses dangling from trees whose distant silhouettes stand out against the sky, in so many old paintings, are merely a realistic detail,” Braudel observed. “They were part of the landscape.” Between 1530 and 1630, according to Cambridge historian V. A. C. Gatrell, England executed seventy-five thousand people. At the time, its population was about three million, perhaps a tenth that of the Mexica empire. Arithmetic suggests that if England had been the size of the Triple Alliance, it would have executed, on average, about 7,500 people per year, roughly twice the number Cortés estimated for the empire. France and Spain were still more bloodthirsty than England, according to Braudel. In their penchant for ceremonial public slaughter, the Alliance and Europe were more alike than either side grasped. In both places the public death was accompanied by the reading of ritual scripts. And in both the goal was to create a cathartic paroxysm of loyalty to the government—in the Mexica case, by recalling the spiritual justification for the empire; in the European case, to reassert the sovereign’s divine power after it had been injured by a criminal act. Most important, neither society should be judged—or in the event judged each other—entirely by its brutality. Who today would want to live in the Greece of Plato and Socrates, with its slavery, constant warfare, institutionalized pederasty, and relentless culling of surplus population? Yet Athens had a coruscating tradition of rhetoric, lyric drama, and philosophy. So did Tenochtitlan and the other cities in the Triple Alliance.
-->-- '''Charles C Mann''', ''1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus''
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-->-- ''Film/{{Transformers}}''

->''"The boy]] believed you could be saved. But he didn't know what burns within your soul. And in your heart, you know we are the same!"''

'''Joker:''' [[DistinctionWithoutaDifference Not "mad". "Differently sane".]]

'''Joker:''' [[NeverheardThatOnebefore That's what the others thought, too.]]

'''Darkseid:''' [[AgodamI I'm a god.]] [[AxCrazy You're a madman.]]\\

-> "Everything has a soul! We're exorcists, not killers - otherwise ''we're no different'' from the Mandrill King!"

->'''[[TheHero Commander Shepard]]:''' Your superiors are sending you to certain death for no good reason. You have a right to disobey.\\
'''[[GadgeteerGenius Tali]]:''' Let's remember that for the next time Shepard sends us against impossible odds.\\
'''[[RobotBuddy Legion]]:''' Current trends average [[LudicrousPrecision 2.73 instances per day]]. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Rounded down.]]

->[[MessianicArchetype The boy]] believed you could be saved. But he didn't know what burns within your soul. And in your heart, you know we are the same!
-->-- '''[[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Mannoroth]]''' to [[OldSoldier Grom Hellscream]], ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII''[[note]]Hellscream's response is to [[TalkToTheFist chop him in half with an axe.]][[/note]]

-> '''Dimitri:''' But misfortune finds us all. Perhaps those around you have suffered or even perished, but look at you. You're still here, alive and well.\\

'''Dimitri:''' [[SurvivorsGuilt It doesn't feel good, does it...to be the one left behind? You feel guilt for not dying along with the others.]]\\

->'''[[NobleDemon Kotal Kahn]]''': I was a [[BenevolentMageRuler just and compassionate emperor]].\\

'''Kotal Kahn''': [[ArmorPiercingResponse And how did]] ''[[SociopathicSoldier you]]'' [[{{Hypocrite}} end up in Hell]]?

->'''[[TheStoic Door]]:''' [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Blankbodies]] are parasites. You kill people and you eat them. To allow you to persist is to ablet genocide.
->'''[[AllBikersAreHellsAngels Shitbeard]]''': "ABET GENOCIDE"?! YOU ARE GENOCIDING US RIGHT NOW!
->'''Door:''' Your life has already ended, tick. I can't. Kill. A corpse.
->'''[[LooksLikeOrlock Pyotr]]:''' Hohohoholy fucking shit fellas. Wouldn't this guy makes such a good [[AristocratsAreEvil Ventrue]]? AHH... [[InsistentTerminology Kindred]] do not "live", we ''un''live. OOH...We do not do things "all day", we do things ''all night''. AHH, OOH, We do not "X", we ''Vampire Word''!

->'''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko]]''': He's just...
->'''[[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Shoto Todoroki]]''': ...like me.

->...Well, like it or not, you and Franchise/{{Kirby}} aren't that different. But where he has childlike optimism, you have untempered malice. Sometimes that's all the difference one needs to be the "good guy".
-->-- '''[[AntiHero Meta Knight]]''' to [[{{Jerkass}} King Dedede]], ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/176-turnaboutkirby6/ #176]]

-->-- '''Lord Shojo[[HelpfulHallucination (?)]]''' to [[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar Bitterleaf]], ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0606.html strip #606]]

->Whether it’s the classical music playing in the background, the omelette or the fine suits, Fisk repeatedly asserts his own humanity and civility. No matter where the day takes him, no matter how it plays out, Fisk at least starts the day as a refined and cultured gentleman. [[FauxAffablyEvil It is a lie]], but it is no greater a lie than that told by Matt Murdock...Vladimir suggests that Fisk prohibits people from using his name as an attempt to build himself into something [[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed more than a mere man]]. It might be true. ''Daredevil'' repeatedly suggests that both the protagonist and antagonist are victims in their own ways. Perhaps both Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk are ultimately products of the urban environment. Perhaps they simply embody and express different facets of the city.

->"Cults are ruthless," Hurley said. "They'll often resort to such techniques as isolation, suppression of individuality, and brainwashing to indoctrinate innocents into total domination by the cult. Here at the Fellowship House, we provide such people with an environment totally different from their previous surroundings, so that they may better reject their sinful ways of the past, and give over their hearts and minds completely to Jesus, that they may better learn his doctrines and teachings."
-->-- ''Website/TheOnion'', "[[https://local.theonion.com/former-cult-members-find-new-life-in-christ-1819564341 Former Cult Members Find New Life In Christ]]"

-> WebVideo/{{Jreg}}, “Can’t you see you’re all the same to me, oh look I shot a Nazi, oh look, I shot a Commie, oh look, I shot a Righty or did I shoot a Lefty, you’re all the same to me”.

->'''Raphael''': So, you do all this because [[IOweYouMyLife you owe Shredder]]?\\
'''Xever''': [[SubvertedTrope Eh]], mostly [[PsychoForHire I like having a job where I get to crack skulls every day.]]\\
'''Raphael''': Okay, [[BloodKnight I can relate to that]].\\