History Quotes / TheQuisling

->''"My name is Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber. I am just a man. I help the Strangers...conduct their experiments. I have betrayed my own kind."''

->''"Is submission not preferable to extinction?"''

->Is it so wrong to want to be on the winning side? Year by year, the Beastmen grow bolder and [[TheHorde the Marauders]] stronger. Year by year, there are more Mutants, and worse, within the borders of the Empire. The Emperor is fighting a losing battle. I am a pragmatist first and foremost; the Empire has made me rich, but [[ReligionOfEvil Chaos]] will help me survive when Middenheim is in flames and its people are food for Beastmen or sacrifices to the [[WarGod Blood God]]. Survive and even prosper. [[TheTrickster The Master of Fortune]] is good to those who revere him.

[[AC:Film--Live-action]]

->I'm a policeman now, could you believe it? That's what's hard to believe. It's a good racket, Poldek. It's the only racket here. Look, maybe I could put in a good word for you with my superiors … come on, they're not as bad as everyone says. Well, they're ''[[AxCrazy worse]]'' than everyone says, but it's a lot of money, a lot of money.
-->--'''Marcel Goldberg''', ''Film/SchindlersList''

->You could see that National Socialism was leading Germany to disaster. [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat "It was clear to anyone who had eyes and ears."]] Didn't you realize what it would have meant if you, and men ''like'' you, would have refused to swear to the oath? It would have meant that Hitler could never have come to absolute power. Why didn't you? [no reply] Why didn't you?! Can you give us an explanation? has it something to do with your pension? Did your '''[[EveryManHasHisPrice pension]]''' mean more to you than your country?!
-->--'''Hans Rolfe''', ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg''

->Heh. Some men are patriots like General Washington. And others are anarchists, like Mr. Paine. Some, even, are internationalists, like Dr. Franklin. But ''you'', sir? You, sir, are merely an agitator! Distributing the peace! Creating disorder! Endangering the public welfare! And for what? Your petty little personal complaints. ''Your taxes are too high.''
-->--'''John Dickinson''' to UsefulNotes/JohnAdams, ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''

[[AC:Live-action TV]]

->They handed over power to people they thought could settle scores, get the trains running on time, restore their prestige. They did it because it was ''[[HappinessInSlavery they]]'' wanted. Afterward, like children who have eaten too much candy after dinner, they denied it was their fault: 'Nah, it was ''them!''[='=] It's always 'them'.
-->--'''William Edgars''', ''Series/BabylonFive'' ([[{{Recap/BabylonFiveS04E16TheExerciseOfVitalPowers}} "The Exercise of Vital Powers"]])

->Listen, I've [[ShutUpKirk heard all that dren before]]. Usually from people like you, chained to a cell. Look at me. ''I'm'' not. You know why? Because I figured out a long time ago: Peacekeepers, Scarrans, what difference does it matter who rules? It won't be me. All I'm going to do is survive.
-->--'''Vreena''', ''{{Series/Farscape}}'' ("Prayer")

->'''Kira:''' What do you want, Quark?\\
'''Quark:''' The usual: Peace, love and understanding. Not to mention a generous profit margin, which I'm happy to say is looking more and more likely. You know, I never expected to say this, but as occupations go, this one's not so bad.\\
'''Kira:''' No, I suppose that's true if all you're worried about is a monthly balance sheet.
-->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "A Time to Stand"

[[AC:Tabletop Games]]

->A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.
-->-- '''Cardinal Khrysdam''', Instructum Absolutio'', '''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'''

[[AC:Video Games]]

->Um, since your rise to power, I have seen the wisdom and beneficence in your actions. You do not mean to cause us harm, but rather to bring us to greater glory by serving a being as ''perfect'' as yourself. Please allow me to demonstrate my loyal servitude by giving the location of the human detritus who undermine your 'sanitization': they are in the northeast banquet hall. All I ask in return for this expression of my love is a measure of protection and an opportunity to spread the message of your, uhh, cybernetic holiness(?).
-->--'''Edward Diego''' to SHODAN, ''VideoGame/SystemShock''

->'''[[NobleDemon Orlok]]:''' Tell me, Nufai; your world was once destroyed by our armies. What did it mean to you?\\
'''Nufai:''' Much opportunity, sir.\\
'''Orlok:''' Those are the words of a traitor.\\
'''Nufai:''' But I still live to speak them. [[DirtyCoward The others of my kin do not.]]
-->-- ''VideoGame/UniverseAtWar''

->Is submission not preferable to extinction?

[[AC:RealLife]]

->A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, [[TheCorrupter he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men]]. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
-->--'''{{Creator/Cicero}}'''

->A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future.
-->--'''Vidkun Quisling'''

->Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their [[GenreBlindness blindness]]. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.
-->--'''Vasily Grossman''', ''Life and Fate''

->Everything is good in its season. I consider real antistalinists only those who rebelled against [[UsefulNotes/JosephStalin stalinism]] while this was deadly dangerous.
-->--'''Aleksandr Zinoviev''', ''The Russian Fate: The confession of a dissident''

->The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent [[BastardlySpeech ingenious justifications]] for inequality, the punishments to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem those who try to remedy it.]]
-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell''', ''Sceptical Essays''

->If it were a choice between a provocateur and an ‘anesthetizer’, I’d rather have a provocateur. It would mobilize us.
-->--'''Ralph Nader'''

->It's extremely easy to be sucked into the dominant culture. It's very appealing. There are [[BetterLivingThroughEvil a lot of rewards]]. And what's more, the people you meet [[PunchClockVillain don't look like bad people]]--You don't want to sit there and insult them. You try to be friends, maybe you even are friends. Well, you begin to conform, to adapt, you begin to smooth off the harsher edges--and pretty soon it's just happened, it kind of seeps in.
-->--'''Noam Chomsky''', ''Understanding Power''

->[[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin Putin]] is surviving by dishing out oil money and influence to his inner circle, he’s getting away with it, and those guys love driving around London in Ferraris. I guess, the day those assholes have to tell their trophy wives that they are no longer allowed to drive around London in Ferraris, is the day Putin starts to lose his grip on power.
-->--'''[[http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/whats-confused-pro-putin-libertarians/ Mark Splinter]]'''

->These enthusiastic intellectuals can become dangerous in wartime. Many hold [[TooCleverByHalf messianic and uncompromising beliefs]] that they have never had to put into practice. All national movements have such pernicious mentors willing to justify the use of force [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for a utopian and unworkable vision]].
-->--'''Chris Hedges''', ''War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning''

->For a moment, let's leave aside the absurdity of a wealthy gay neighborhood, obviously already a prime destination for [[HookersAndBlow prostitutes of a certain gender and drug-dealing of only the best substances]], worrying about the wrong kind of prostitutes (the ones in the street!), and the wrong kind of drug dealers (the ones who don't drive Mercedes!) arriving in their [[StepfordSuburbia whitewashed gayborhood]].
-->--'''[[http://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/gayrights_lip.html Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore]]''' on UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco

-->--'''[[http://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/gayrights_lip.html Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore]]''' on UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco

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->You could see that National Socialism was leading Germany to disaster. [[IronicEcho "It was clear to anyone who had eyes and ears."]] Didn't you realize what it would have meant if you, and men ''like'' you, would have refused to swear to the oath? It would have meant that Hitler could never have come to absolute power. Why didn't you? [no reply] Why didn't you?! Can you give us an explanation? has it something to do with your pension? Did your '''[[EveryManHasHisPrice pension]]''' mean more to you than your country?!

->Um, since your rise to power, I have seen the wisdom and beneficence in your actions. You do not mean to cause us harm, but rather to bring us to greater glory by serving a being as ''perfect'' as yourself. Please allow me to demonstrate my loyal servitude by giving the location of the human detritus who undermine your 'sanitization': they are in the northeast banquet hall. All I ask in return for this expression of my love is a measure of protection and an opportunity to spread the message of your, uhh, cybernetic holiness(?).
-->--'''Edward Diego''' to SHODAN, ''VideoGame/SystemShock''

->Heh. Some men are patriots like General Washington. And others are anarchists, like Mr. Paine. Some, even, are internationalists, like Dr. Franklin. But ''you'', sir? You, sir, are merely an agitator. Distributing the peace, creating disorder, endangering the public welfare! And for what? Your petty little personal complaints. ''Your taxes are too high.''
-->--'''John Dickinson''' to JohnAdams, ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''

->'''[[NobleDemon Orlok]]:''' Tell me, Nufai; your world was once destroyed by our armies. What did it mean to you?\\
'''Nufai:''' Much opportunity, sir.\\
'''Orlok:''' Those are the words of a traitor.\\
'''Nufai:''' But I still live to speak them. [[DirtyCoward The others of my kin do not.]]
-->-- ''VideoGame/UniverseAtWar''

->The Lannisters send their regards.
-->-- '''Roose Bolton''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''

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->A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse appears not a traitor]]; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, [[TheCorrupter he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men]]. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

-->--[[http://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/gayrights_lip.html Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore]]

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->[[WildCard Everything is good in its season]]. I consider real antistalinists only those who rebelled against [[UsefulNotes/JosephStalin stalinism]] while this was deadly dangerous.

->A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor [[AffablyEvil appears not a traitor]]; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, [[TheCorrupter he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men]]. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

->You could see what was coming. You could see that National Socialism was leading Germany to disaster. [[IronicEcho "It was clear to anyone who had eyes and ears."]] Didn't you realize what it would have meant if you, and men ''like'' you, would have refused to swear to the oath? It would have meant that Hitler could never have come to absolute power. Why didn't you? [no reply] Why didn't you?! Can you give us an explanation? has it something to do with your pension? Did your '''[[EveryManHasHisPrice pension]]''' mean more to you than your country?!

->After [[JosefStalin Stalin]]'s death, especially after XX Party Congress, a multitude of antistalinists appeared in Soviet Union...[[DirtyCoward Everything is good in its season]]. I consider real antistalinists only those who rebelled against stalinism while this was deadly dangerous.

->'''UsefulNotes/JohnAdams:''' Crippling taxes? Cruel repressions? Abolished rights?\\
'''John Dickinson:''' ''(mouth agape)'' Is that all England means to you, sir? Is that all the pride and affection you can muster for the nation that bore you? For the noblest, most civilized nation on the planet? Would you have us forsake Hastings and Magna Carta, Strongbow and Lionhearted, Drake and Marlborough, Tudors, Stuarts, and Plantagenets? For what, sir? Tell me, for what? For ''you''? Heh. Some men are patriots like General Washington. And others are anarchists, like Mr. Paine. Some, even, are internationalists, like Dr. Franklin. But ''you'', sir? You, sir, are merely an agitator. Distributing the peace, creating disorder, endangering the public welfare! And for what? Your petty little personal complaints. ''Your taxes are too high.''
-->--''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''

->All those North Koreans crying because of Kim Jong-il’s death? Their grief is probably sincere... one of Kim Jong-il’s aides told his wife about his boss’s womanizing. The wife truly believed in the basic decency of the {{North Korea}}n system and wrote to the leadership to protest the debauchery. The letter was passed on to Kim Jong-il, who brought the woman in front of a crowd and denounced her.\\\
Her own husband then stepped forward, pleading to be allowed to execute her. This request was granted, and the husband then shot his wife to death.
-->--'''Nicholas D. Kristof''', "A New Kim, A New Chance?"

->Black Americans have been getting squeezed like no time in my memory under [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]], driven from their neighborhoods by runaway gentrification and dealing with heavy competition in the labor market by immigrant workers. I don't think Ferguson was all about a police shooting and I don't think it's the last eruption we'll see.\\\
Which only goes to prove my maxim that when they put your guy in the White House, ''look out''. Going back to at least [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson LBJ]], it means they're about to stick the knife in.
-->--'''[[http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-new-sleepwalkers.html Christopher Loring Knowles]]''', "The New Sleepwalkers"

->There are no shortages of intellectuals willing to line up behind leaders they despise in times of national crisis, an act that negates the moral posturing they often make from within the confines of academia during peacetime. These enthusiastic intellectuals can become dangerous in wartime. Many hold [[TooCleverByHalf messianic and uncompromising beliefs]] that they have never had to put into practice. All national movements have such pernicious mentors willing to justify the use of force [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for a utopian and unworkable vision]].

->Ironically, the single most masculine figure in contemporary American culture is a woman, namely SarahPalin. This is in part because of her success in rocketing to the head of a particular conservative movement that is based on masculinity...When these tactics are tied to [[HeteronormativeCrusader gay panic]] and capitalism -- both natural allies in masculinity -- the result is terrifying. Sarah Palin's genius is to hide these factors in an ostensibly feminine, indeed an ostensibly feminist packaging.
-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2010/09/best-defense-is-probably-cup-of-tea-and.html Dr. Phil Sandifer]]'''

->In 1998, wealthy gay [[SanFrancisco Castro residents]] fought against a queer youth shelter because they feared it would get in the way of '[[UrbanSegregation community property values]].' They warned that a queer youth shelter would bring prostitution and drug-dealing to the neighborhood. For a moment, let's leave aside the absurdity of a wealthy gay neighborhood, obviously already a prime destination for [[HookersAndBlow prostitutes of a certain gender and drug-dealing of only the best substances]], worrying about the wrong kind of prostitutes (the ones in the street!), and the wrong kind of drug dealers (the ones who don't drive Mercedes!) arriving in their whitewashed gayborhood...Gay marriage proponents are anxious to discard generations of queer efforts to create new ways of loving, lusting for, and caring for one another, in favor of a 1950s model of [[EverytownAmerica white-picket-fence, 'we're-just-like-you' normalcy]].

->''"I'm a policeman now, could you believe it? That's what's hard to believe. It's a good racket, Poldek. It's the only racket here. Look, maybe I could put in a good word for you with my superiors … come on, they're not as bad as everyone says. Well, they're ''[[AxCrazy worse]]'' than everyone says, but it's a lot of money, a lot of money."''

->''"Um, since your rise to power, I have seen the wisdom and beneficence in your actions. You do not mean to cause us harm, but rather to bring us to greater glory by serving a being as ''perfect'' as yourself. Please allow me to demonstrate my loyal servitude by giving the location of the human detritus who undermine your 'sanitization': they are in the northeast banquet hall. All I ask in return for this expression of my love is a measure of protection and an opportunity to spread the message of your, uhh, cybernetic holiness."''

-->--'''''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''''', "A Time to Stand"

-->--'''''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'''''

->''"A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor."''

->''“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor [[AffablyEvil appears not a traitor]]; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, [[TheCorrupter he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men]]. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."''

->''“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future.”''

->''“Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their [[GenreBlindness blindness]]. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.”''

->''"After [[JosefStalin Stalin]]'s death, especially after XX Party Congress, a multitude of antistalinists appeared in Soviet Union...[[DirtyCoward Everything is good in its season]]. I consider real antistalinists only those who rebelled against stalinism while this was deadly dangerous."''

->''“The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent [[BastardlySpeech ingenious justifications]] for inequality, the punishments to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem those who try to remedy it.]]”''

->''"If it were a choice between a provocateur and an ‘anesthetizer’, I’d rather have a provocateur. It would mobilize us."''

->''"It's extremely easy to be sucked into the dominant culture. It's very appealing. There are [[BetterLivingThroughEvil a lot of rewards]]. And what's more, the people you meet [[AffablyEvil don't look like bad people]]--You don't want to sit there and insult them. You try to be friends, maybe you even are friends. Well, you begin to conform, to adapt, you begin to smooth off the harsher edges--and pretty soon it's just happened, it kind of seeps in."''

->''"All those North Koreans crying because of Kim Jong-il’s death? Their grief is probably sincere... one of Kim Jong-il’s aides told his wife about his boss’s womanizing. The wife truly believed in the basic decency of the {{North Korea}}n system and wrote to the leadership to protest the debauchery. The letter was passed on to Kim Jong-il, who brought the woman in front of a crowd and denounced her.''\\
''Her own husband then stepped forward, pleading to be allowed to execute her. This request was granted, and the husband then shot his wife to death."''

->''"Black Americans have been getting squeezed like no time in my memory under [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]], driven from their neighborhoods by runaway gentrification and dealing with heavy competition in the labor market by immigrant workers. I don't think Ferguson was all about a police shooting and I don't think it's the last eruption we'll see.''\\
''Which only goes to prove my maxim that when they put your guy in the White House, ''look out''. Going back to at least [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson LBJ]], it means they're about to stick the knife in."''

->''"There are no shortages of intellectuals willing to line up behind leaders they despise in times of national crisis, an act that negates the moral posturing they often make from within the confines of academia during peacetime. These enthusiastic intellectuals can become dangerous in wartime. Many hold [[TooCleverByHalf messianic and uncompromising beliefs]] that they have never had to put into practice. All national movements have such pernicious mentors willing to justify the use of force [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for a utopian and unworkable vision]]."''

->''"Ironically, the single most masculine figure in contemporary American culture is a woman, namely SarahPalin. This is in part because of her success in rocketing to the head of a particular conservative movement that is based on masculinity...When these tactics are tied to [[HeteronormativeCrusader gay panic]] and capitalism -- both natural allies in masculinity -- the result is terrifying. Sarah Palin's genius is to hide these factors in an ostensibly feminine, indeed an ostensibly feminist packaging."''
-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2010/09/best-defense-is-probably-cup-of-tea-and.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"I realized during one of my conversations with Janet that she was the author of a particularly fucked-up post titled 'Why Don’t We Have a Dumb Fucking Whore Registry? Now That Would Be Justice,' a piece she penned in response to the much-publicized 2013 trial of two small-town football players in Steubenville, Ohio, who were found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl who had passed out after drinking at a party. 'That is a tragedy for the boys, for justice and for the victims of actual rape,' she wrote of the verdict, adding: 'Comparing a stupid, drunk, helmet-chasing whore who gets fingered while passed out to an actual rape victim is completely and utterly absurd.' ..Jess seems to be a bit more pragmatic. 'Unfortunately society listens to women more than men,' she told me, 'and if we can take advantage of that to get some equality, well, then, good!'"''
-->--'''[[http://www.vice.com/vice-profiles/the-women-of-the-mens-rights-movement-751 Alex Brook Lynn]]''', "The Women of the Men's Rights Movement"

->''"In 1998, wealthy gay [[SanFrancisco Castro residents]] fought against a queer youth shelter because they feared it would get in the way of '[[UrbanSegregation community property values]].' They warned that a queer youth shelter would bring prostitution and drug-dealing to the neighborhood. For a moment, let's leave aside the absurdity of a wealthy gay neighborhood, obviously already a prime destination for [[HookersAndBlow prostitutes of a certain gender and drug-dealing of only the best substances]], worrying about the wrong kind of prostitutes (the ones in the street!), and the wrong kind of drug dealers (the ones who don't drive Mercedes!) arriving in their whitewashed gayborhood...Gay marriage proponents are anxious to discard generations of queer efforts to create new ways of loving, lusting for, and caring for one another, in favor of a 1950s model of [[EverytownAmerica white-picket-fence, 'we're-just-like-you' normalcy]]."''

->''"Black Americans have been getting squeezed like no time in my memory under [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]], driven from their neighborhoods by runaway gentrification and dealing with heavy competition in the labor market by immigrant workers. I don't think Ferguson was all about a police shooting and I don't think it's the last eruption we'll see.''
->''Which only goes to prove my maxim that when they put your guy in the White House, ''look out''. Going back to at least [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson LBJ]], it means they're about to stick the knife in."''

->''"After [[JosefStalin Stalin]]'s death, especially after [[NewEraSpeech XX Party Congress]], a multitude of antistalinists appeared in Soviet Union...Everything is good in its season. I consider real antistalinists only those who rebelled against stalinism while this was deadly dangerous."''
-->--'''Aleksandr Zinoviev''', ''The Russian Fate: The confession of a dissident''

->'''Kira:''' What do you want, Quark?
->'''Quark:''' The usual: Peace, love and understanding. Not to mention a generous profit margin, which I'm happy to say is looking more and more likely. You know, I never expected to say this, but as occupations go, this one's not so bad.
->'''Kira:''' No, I suppose that's true if all you're worried about is a monthly balance sheet.

->'''UsefulNotes/JohnAdams:''' Crippling taxes? Cruel repressions? Abolished rights?
->'''John Dickinson:''' ''(mouth agape)'' Is that all England means to you, sir? Is that all the pride and affection you can muster for the nation that bore you? For the noblest, most civilized nation on the planet? Would you have us forsake Hastings and Magna Carta, Strongbow and Lionhearted, Drake and Marlborough, Tudors, Stuarts, and Plantagenets? For what, sir? Tell me, for what? For ''you''? Heh. Some men are patriots like General Washington. And others are anarchists, like Mr. Paine. Some, even, are internationalists, like Dr. Franklin. But ''you'', sir? You, sir, are merely an agitator. Distributing the peace, creating disorder, endangering the public welfare! And for what? Your petty little personal complaints. ''Your taxes are too high.''

->'''[[NobleDemon Orlok]]:''' Tell me, Nufai; your world was once destroyed by our armies. What did it mean to you?
->'''Nufai:''' Much opportunity, sir.
->'''Orlok:''' Those are the words of a traitor.
->'''Nufai:''' But I still live to speak them. [[DirtyCoward The others of my kin do not.]]

->''"All those North Koreans crying because of Kim Jong-il’s death? Their grief is probably sincere... one of Kim Jong-il’s aides told his wife about his boss’s womanizing. The wife truly believed in the basic decency of the {{North Korea}}n system and wrote to the leadership to protest the debauchery. The letter was passed on to Kim Jong-il, who brought the woman in front of a crowd and denounced her.''
->''Her own husband then stepped forward, pleading to be allowed to execute her. This request was granted, and the husband then shot his wife to death."''

->''"After [[JosefStalin Stalin]]'s death, especially after XX Party Congress, a multitude of antistalinists appeared in Soviet Union...Everything is good in its season. I consider real antistalinists only those who rebelled against stalinism while this was deadly dangerous."''

-->--'''Bertrand Russell''', ''Sceptical Essays''

->''"Black Americans have been getting squeezed like no time in my memory under [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]], driven from their neighborhoods by runaway gentrification and dealing with heavy competition in the labor market by immigrant workers. I don't think Ferguson was all about a police shooting and I don't think it's the last eruption we'll see.\\\
Which only goes to prove my maxim that when they put your guy in the White House, ''look out''. Going back to at least [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson LBJ]], it means they're about to stick the knife in."''

->''"I'm a policeman now, could you believe it? That's what's hard to believe. It's a good racket, Poldek. It's the only racket here. Look, maybe I could put in a good word for you with my superiors … come on, they're not as bad as everyone says. Well, they're ''[[AxCrazy worse]]'' than everyone says, but it's a lot of money, a lot of money."''\\
--'''Marcel Goldberg''', ''Film/SchindlersList''

->''"Um, since your rise to power, I have seen the wisdom and beneficence in your actions. You do not mean to cause us harm, but rather to bring us to greater glory by serving a being as ''perfect'' as yourself. Please allow me to demonstrate my loyal servitude by giving the location of the human detritus who undermine your 'sanitization': they are in the northeast banquet hall. All I ask in return for this expression of my love is a measure of protection and an opportunity to spread the message of your, uhh, cybernetic holiness."''\\
--'''Edward Diego''' to SHODAN, ''VideoGame/SystemShock''

->'''Kira:''' What do you want, Quark?\\
'''Quark:''' The usual: Peace, love and understanding. Not to mention a generous profit margin, which I'm happy to say is looking more and more likely. You know, I never expected to say this, but as occupations go, this one's not so bad.\\
'''Kira:''' No, I suppose that's true if all you're worried about is a monthly balance sheet.\\
--'''''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''''', "A Time to Stand"

->'''UsefulNotes/JohnAdams:''' Crippling taxes? Cruel repressions? Abolished rights?\\
'''John Dickinson:''' ''(mouth agape)'' Is that all England means to you, sir? Is that all the pride and affection you can muster for the nation that bore you? For the noblest, most civilized nation on the planet? Would you have us forsake Hastings and Magna Carta, Strongbow and Lionhearted, Drake and Marlborough, Tudors, Stuarts, and Plantagenets? For what, sir? Tell me, for what? For ''you''? Heh. Some men are patriots like General Washington. And others are anarchists, like Mr. Paine. Some, even, are internationalists, like Dr. Franklin. But ''you'', sir? You, sir, are merely an agitator. Distributing the peace, creating disorder, endangering the public welfare! And for what? Your petty little personal complaints. ''Your taxes are too high.''\\
--'''''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'''''

->'''[[NobleDemon Orlok]]:''' Tell me, [[DirtyCoward Nufai]]; your world was once destroyed by our armies. What did it mean to you?\\
'''Nufai:''' Much opportunity, sir.\\
'''Orlok:''' Those are the words of a traitor.\\
'''Nufai:''' But I still live to speak them -- the others of my kin do not.\\
'''Orlok:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Then I'm sure you have their admiration]].\\
-- ''VideoGame/UniverseAtWar''

->''"A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor."''\\
-- '''Cardinal Khrysdam''', Instructum Absolutio'', '''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'''

->''“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor [[AffablyEvil appears not a traitor]]; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, [[TheCorrupter he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men]]. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."''\\
--'''{{Creator/Cicero}}'''

->''“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future.”''\\
--'''Vidkun Quisling'''

->''"After [[JosefStalin Stalin]]'s death, especially after [[NewEraSpeech XX Party Congress]], a multitude of antistalinists appeared in Soviet Union...Everything is good in its season. I consider real antistalinists only those who rebelled against stalinism while this was deadly dangerous."''\\
--'''Aleksandr Zinoviev''', ''The Russian Fate: The confession of a dissident''

->''“Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their [[GenreBlindness blindness]]. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.”''\\
--'''Vasily Grossman''', ''Life and Fate''

->''“The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent [[BastardlySpeech ingenious justifications]] for inequality, the punishments to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem those who try to remedy it.]]”''\\
--'''Bertrand Russell''', ''Sceptical Essays''

->''"If it were a choice between a provocateur and an ‘anesthetizer’, I’d rather have a provocateur. It would mobilize us."''\\
--'''Ralph Nader'''

->''"It's extremely easy to be sucked into the dominant culture. It's very appealing. There are [[BetterLivingThroughEvil a lot of rewards]]. And what's more, the people you meet [[AffablyEvil don't look like bad people]]--You don't want to sit there and insult them. You try to be friends, maybe you even are friends. Well, you begin to conform, to adapt, you begin to smooth off the harsher edges--and pretty soon it's just happened, it kind of seeps in."''\\
--'''Noam Chomsky''', ''Understanding Power''

->''"There are no shortages of intellectuals willing to line up behind leaders they despise in times of national crisis, an act that negates the moral posturing they often make from within the confines of academia during peacetime. These enthusiastic intellectuals can become dangerous in wartime. Many hold [[TooCleverByHalf messianic and uncompromising beliefs]] that they have never had to put into practice. All national movements have such pernicious mentors willing to justify the use of force [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for a utopian and unworkable vision]]."''\\
--'''Chris Hedges''', ''War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning''

->''"Ironically, the single most masculine figure in contemporary American culture is a woman, namely SarahPalin. This is in part because of her success in rocketing to the head of a particular conservative movement that is based on masculinity...When these tactics are tied to [[HeteronormativeCrusader gay panic]] and capitalism -- both natural allies in masculinity -- the result is terrifying. Sarah Palin's genius is to hide these factors in an ostensibly feminine, indeed an ostensibly feminist packaging."''\\
--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2010/09/best-defense-is-probably-cup-of-tea-and.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"I realized during one of my conversations with Janet that she was the author of a particularly fucked-up post titled 'Why Don’t We Have a Dumb Fucking Whore Registry? Now That Would Be Justice,' a piece she penned in response to the much-publicized 2013 trial of two small-town football players in Steubenville, Ohio, who were found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl who had passed out after drinking at a party. 'That is a tragedy for the boys, for justice and for the victims of actual rape,' she wrote of the verdict, adding: 'Comparing a stupid, drunk, helmet-chasing whore who gets fingered while passed out to an actual rape victim is completely and utterly absurd.' ..Jess seems to be a bit more pragmatic. 'Unfortunately society listens to women more than men,' she told me, 'and if we can take advantage of that to get some equality, well, then, good!'"''\\
--'''[[http://www.vice.com/vice-profiles/the-women-of-the-mens-rights-movement-751 Alex Brook Lynn]]''', "The Women of the Men's Rights Movement"

->''"In 1998, wealthy gay [[SanFrancisco Castro residents]] fought against a queer youth shelter because they feared it would get in the way of '[[UrbanSegregation community property values]].' They warned that a queer youth shelter would bring prostitution and drug-dealing to the neighborhood. For a moment, let's leave aside the absurdity of a wealthy gay neighborhood, obviously already a prime destination for [[HookersAndBlow prostitutes of a certain gender and drug-dealing of only the best substances]], worrying about the wrong kind of prostitutes (the ones in the street!), and the wrong kind of drug dealers (the ones who don't drive Mercedes!) arriving in their whitewashed gayborhood...Gay marriage proponents are anxious to discard generations of queer efforts to create new ways of loving, lusting for, and caring for one another, in favor of a 1950s model of [[EverytownAmerica white-picket-fence, 'we're-just-like-you' normalcy]]."''\\
--[[http://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/gayrights_lip.html Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore]]

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'''Kira:''' No, I suppose that's true if all you're worried about is a monthly balance sheet.
-->--'''''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''''', "A Time to Stand"

->''"His father betrayed my people to the Romulans. Duras is a traitor...I know him. His ''heart'' is not Klingon."''\\
--'''Worf''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ("Reunion")