History Quotes / TheExtremistWasRight

->'''Schlock''': You could save a lot of time by just ''telling'' me what you want.\\
'''Petey''': If ''time'' was all I wanted to save, I would be doing a great many things very differently.

-->--[[spoiler:'''Ozymandias''']], ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''

->'''{{Franchise/Batman}}''': You grabbed power!\\
'''[[EvilCounterpart Lord Batman]]''': And with that power, we've made a world where no eight-year-old boy will '''ever''' [[DeathByOriginStory lose his parents, because of some punk with a gun]]!\\

'''Batman''': ... You win.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "A Better World (Part 2)"

-->--''The Victories of UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} the God''

->'''Isana''': How can you live with yourself?\\
'''Gaius Sextus''': I look out my window each day. I look out my window at people who live and breathe. At people who have not been devoured by civil war. At people who have not been ravaged by disease. At people who have not starved to death, who have not been hacked apart by enemies of humanity, at people who are free to lie and steal and plot and complain and accuse and behave in all manner of repugnant ways because the Realm stands. Because law and order stands. Because something other than simple violence shapes the course of their lives. And I look, [[spoiler: wife of my son, mother of my heir]], at a very few decent people who have had the luxury of living their lives without being called upon to [[TheChainsOfCommanding make hideous decisions]] I would not wish upon my worst enemies, and who consequently find such matters morally appalling when they consider them—because they have not had to be the ones who dealt with them.
-->--''[[Literature/CodexAlera Princeps' Fury]]''

-> ''"I am baffled by critics who accept Mitth'raw'nuruodo's account of his discussion with Palpatine about the Far Outsiders, yet refuse to revise their opinions about either man. They ignore what Mitth'raw'Nuruodo reported Palpatine believed: that the weak Republic would be defeated by the Vong, and had to be reforged into an orderly, militarized society able to resist them. They refuse to consider the possibility that the Empire's apparent brutality and ruthlessness were necessary parts of preparing for that terrible war. Why do they refuse to do so? Because that would lead them to the only logical conclusion: that Palpatine was right."''

->'''Captain Picard''': Maxwell was right. Those ships weren't carrying scientific equipment, were they? A 'research' station within arm's reach of three Federation sectors? Cargo ships running with high energy subspace fields that jam sensors?\\
'''Gul Macet''': If you believed the transport ship carried weapons, why didn't you board it as Maxwell requested?\\
'''Captain Picard''': I was here to protect the peace, a peace I firmly believe is in the interests of both our peoples. But if I had attempted to board that ship... I am quite certain that you and I would not be sitting here now. And that ships on both sides would be arming for war... Take a message to your leaders, Gul Macet. We'll be watching.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "The Wounded"

->''"You see, I've watched [[PersonOfMassDestruction you]] work - come to understand your motivation. You think the only way is to kill [[TheLegionsOfHell them]] all - leave nothing behind - and you may be right."''

->'''Dr. Raymond Cocteau''': John Spartan, this display of barbaric behavior was unacceptable even in your time!\\
'''John Spartan''': Yeah. But it worked. When a man like Phoenix has a gun to your head, ten seconds is nine and a half seconds longer than you live.
-->--''Film/DemolitionMan''

->Lord of Admirals. So very many years have we battled. My finest opponent, the Mantle accepts all who live fiercely, who defend their young, who build and struggle and grow, and even those who dominate - as humans have dominated; cruelly, without wisdom. But for all of us, there is a time like this... And for you, that time is now. Know this, relentless enemy, killer of our children. Lord of Admirals. Soon we will face the enemy you have faced... and we are afraid.

->''Their ways are considered extreme - and they would be the first to agree. Extremism is sanctioned, they would say. Extremism is required. Are the enemies of the Imperium concerned with moderation? With liberalism? Of course not!''
-->--''Euclidium'' by Creator/SimonSpurrier (contained in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: What Price Victory'')

->''Could you burn down '''people''' - women and children - even if you '''knew''' they had become '''monsters'''? The '''Baron''' can. The Baron '''has'''. I '''respect''' him for that, but I don't want to '''be''' him. No sane man '''would'''.''
-->--'''Master Payne''' [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050803 on]] Baron Wulfenbach, ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''

->''"[The Gatekeepers] were suppressing technology, per a treaty with the [[UltimateEvil Pa'anuri]]. It was appeasement, writ large, for hundreds of thousands of years. Their clone-and-interrogate operation probably killed the equivalent of the entire population of the galaxy a few thousand times over. But you and I are able to stand here and argue the morality of it, so on some level it must have worked, right?"''

-->--'''Master Payne''' [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050803 on]] Baron Wulfenbach, ''Webcomic/GirlGenius