History Quotes / TheExtremistWasRight

'''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 know. We'll be watching. We'll be ready.

--->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague -- "A Better World (Part 2)"''

->''No one will ever forget that night and what it meant for this country.''
-->--'''Evey Hammond''', ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''

->''"An intractable problem can only be resolved by stepping beyond conventional solutions."''

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

->''"[[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin He]] found Russia working with wooden ploughs and left it with atomic piles."''
-->--'''Isaac Deutscher'''

'''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 know. We'll be watching. We'll be ready.

-> ''"You aren't offering me power. What you're offering is for me to be the one [[TheScapegoat they blame when this whole rotten mess comes crashing down]]! Letting companies and the people with power run things however they like is how we got where we are now! It's going to take a lot more that hopes and prayers to get us out of this [[TheGreatDepression Depression]], it's going to take massive government intervention and [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore some radical changes to the status quo]]. And I'll tell you right now you and your friends won't like some of them. But if a foul-tasting medicine will save you from death, you hold your nose and choke it down!"''
-->-- '''Tanya Degurechaff''', ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12429349/1/The-Leader The Leader]]''

'''John Spartan''': Yeah. But it worked. When a man like Pheonix has a gun to your head, ten seconds is nine and a half seconds longer than you live.

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

''**DramaticPause**''\\

->'''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.”

-->-- '''Barriss Offee''', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''

-->-- '''Tanya Degurechaff''', ''[[ https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12429349/1/The-Leader The Leader]]''

-->-- '''Lenang O'Pali''', [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends The Essential Guide to Warfare]]

->'''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 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.”

->''This was it. [[VillainOverride Finally, everyone was working together.]]''
-->--'''[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Khepri]]''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

--->-- ''JusticeLeague -- "A Better World (Part 2)"''

-->-'''Isaac Deutscher'''

-->--[[Literature/CodexAlera ''Princeps' Fury'']]

-->--''[[EmperorAugustus The Victories of Augustus the God]]''

->''"[[JosefStalin He]] found Russia working with wooden ploughs and left it with atomic piles."''
-->-'''Isaac Deutscher'''

-->--''[[EmperorAugustus The Victories of Augustus the God]]''

->''"I did it...I DID IT!"''

'''Batman''': ...You win.

-->--'''Evey Hammond''', ''VForVendetta''

-->--''[[EmperorAugustus The Victories of Augustus the God]]''

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

->'''{{Batman}}''': You grabbed power!\\

->'''Narrator (probably Morty)''': ''But that was 7 years ago… When we grew up we all realized that the world is too big, and that we don’t have the power to change it.''
->'''Chocolove''': ''We can’t call ourselves “justice”.''
->'''Horohoro''': ''We are at a dead end. After all, money is what makes this world go ‘round’.''
->'''Lyserg''': ''Hao…''
->'''Len''': ''I’m sure that he knew this would happen from the very beginning.''
-->--''ShamanKing''

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