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->''"Such is the way of the world. The mighty shall build their castles upon the corpses of the meek."''
-->-- '''General Mugen Ku''', ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII''
-->-- '''General Mugen Ku''', ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII''
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-->-- ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E9TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]"
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-->-- ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E9TheObsoleteMan "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E29TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]"
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--> '''The Chancellor:''' It's not unusual that we televise executions, Mr. Wordsworth. [[EvilGloating Last year in the mass executions, we televised around the clock. 1300 people were put to death in less than six hours!]]\\
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--> '''The Chancellor:''' It's not unusual that we televise executions, Mr. Wordsworth. [[EvilGloating Last year in the mass executions, we televised around the clock. 1300 people were put to death in less than six hours!]]\\
'''Romney Wordsworth:''' You never learn, do you? History teaches you ''nothing''.\\
'''Chancellor:''' On the contrary, history teaches us a great deal! We had predecessors, Mr. Wordsworth, who had the beginnings of the right idea.\\
'''Wordsworth:''' Yes, like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]].\\
'''Chancellor:''' Yes, like Hitler.\\
'''Wordsworth:''' Also [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]].\\
'''Chancellor:''' Stalin, too -- but their error was not one of excess. It was simply not going far enough. Too many undesirables were left around, and undesirables eventually form a core of resistance. Old people clutch at the past and won't accept the new. The sick, the maimed, the deformed... They fasten onto the healthy body and damage it, so we eliminate them. And people like yourself -- they can perform no useful function for the State, so we put an end to them.
-->-- ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E9TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]"
'''Romney Wordsworth:''' You never learn, do you? History teaches you ''nothing''.\\
'''Chancellor:''' On the contrary, history teaches us a great deal! We had predecessors, Mr. Wordsworth, who had the beginnings of the right idea.\\
'''Wordsworth:''' Yes, like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]].\\
'''Chancellor:''' Yes, like Hitler.\\
'''Wordsworth:''' Also [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]].\\
'''Chancellor:''' Stalin, too -- but their error was not one of excess. It was simply not going far enough. Too many undesirables were left around, and undesirables eventually form a core of resistance. Old people clutch at the past and won't accept the new. The sick, the maimed, the deformed... They fasten onto the healthy body and damage it, so we eliminate them. And people like yourself -- they can perform no useful function for the State, so we put an end to them.
-->-- ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E9TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]"
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-->--''The Antichrist'' by '''Creator/FriedrichNietzsche'''--note that when Nietzsche wrote this while in the middle of a severe mental breakdown
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-->--''The Antichrist'' by '''Creator/FriedrichNietzsche'''--note that when Nietzsche wrote this while in the middle of a severe mental breakdown
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->''"'''I have a dream!''' That one day every person in this nation will control their own destiny. A nation of the truly free, dammit. A nation of ''action'', not words, ruled by ''strength'', not committee! Where the law changes to suit the individual, not the other way around. Where power and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of the people! Where every man is free to think -- to act -- for himself! Fuck all these limp-dick lawyers and chickenshit bureaucrats. Fuck this 24-hour Internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit! ''Fuck American pride! Fuck the media!'' '''''FUCK ALL OF IT!''''' America is diseased. Rotten to the core. There's no saving it -- we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. '''''BURN IT DOWN!''''' And from the ashes a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed! The weak will be purged and the strongest will thrive -- free to live as they see fit, they'll make America ''great again!'' In my new America, people will die and kill for what they ''believe!'' Not for money. not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every man will be free to fight his own wars!"''
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->''"'''I have a dream!''' That one day every person in this nation will control their own destiny. A nation of the truly ''truly'' free, dammit. A nation of ''action'', not words, ruled by ''strength'', not committee! Where the law changes to suit the individual, not the other way around. Where power and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of the people! Where every man is free to think -- to act -- for himself! Fuck all these limp-dick lawyers and chickenshit bureaucrats. Fuck this 24-hour Internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit! ''Fuck American pride! Fuck the media!'' '''''FUCK ALL OF IT!''''' America is diseased. Rotten to the core. There's no saving it -- we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. '''''BURN IT DOWN!''''' And from the ashes a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed! The weak will be purged and the strongest will thrive -- free to live as they see fit, they'll make America ''great again!'' In my new America, people will die and kill for what they ''believe!'' Not for money. not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every man will be free to fight his own wars!"''
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->''Heavy is the crown only for the weak\\
A knife in my heart couldn't slow me down\\
'Cause power is power, my fire never goes out\\
I rise from my scars, nothing hurts me now\\
'Cause power is power\\
Now watch me burn it down''
-->-- '''Music/{{SZA}}''', "Power is Power"
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->Slowly, Ozai pulled himself to his feet and stepped towards the bars of the cell.\\
"My fire has been torn from me. I will never hold the throne again. But as the nation crumbles, and as your precious allies dwindle, you will go to your restless sleep every night, watch the shadows darken, and you'll know, that ''I was right''."\\
Azula took a deep breath.\\
"You asked me what I wanted when I came here. And it was partly to let you get that off your chest."\\
He kept his glare, but Azula could tell that she had caught him by surprise.\\
"That's your philosophy to the very end. Power and brutality is the only way. Compromise is vulnerability. Weakness," Azula sighed and shook her head once. "I used to agree with you. Honestly, a part of me still does."\\
''And no one else in the world will ever get that admission from me.''\\
"I came here to tell you that this is where it ends. I won't be chained to you, or your views, any more. I've found another way."\\
Ozai's eyes narrowed, but he said nothing in reply.\\
Azula turned to leave. Paused, and turned back to look at him again.\\
"Maybe you'll find one yourself, while you're in here," a shrug. "After all, someone once told me that suffering could be a pretty good teacher."\\
Without waiting for a reply, she walked out of the cell.\\
The door slammed shut behind her.
-->-- ''Fanfic/MoralityChainAvatarTheLastAirbender''
"My fire has been torn from me. I will never hold the throne again. But as the nation crumbles, and as your precious allies dwindle, you will go to your restless sleep every night, watch the shadows darken, and you'll know, that ''I was right''."\\
Azula took a deep breath.\\
"You asked me what I wanted when I came here. And it was partly to let you get that off your chest."\\
He kept his glare, but Azula could tell that she had caught him by surprise.\\
"That's your philosophy to the very end. Power and brutality is the only way. Compromise is vulnerability. Weakness," Azula sighed and shook her head once. "I used to agree with you. Honestly, a part of me still does."\\
''And no one else in the world will ever get that admission from me.''\\
"I came here to tell you that this is where it ends. I won't be chained to you, or your views, any more. I've found another way."\\
Ozai's eyes narrowed, but he said nothing in reply.\\
Azula turned to leave. Paused, and turned back to look at him again.\\
"Maybe you'll find one yourself, while you're in here," a shrug. "After all, someone once told me that suffering could be a pretty good teacher."\\
Without waiting for a reply, she walked out of the cell.\\
The door slammed shut behind her.
-->-- ''Fanfic/MoralityChainAvatarTheLastAirbender''
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-->--'''Starscream''', ''ComicBook/Transformers2023''
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->''You fools are weaker than us in every way! You don't deserve to function!''
-->--'''Starscream''', ''ComicBook/Transformers2023''
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->''"You know what? Hate to break it, but you got it all this whole thing. Ever hear of something called a food chain? Didn't they teach you in school? The witches go and eat weak humans, and then we hunt them down and eat the witches. It's the natural way of things that we gotta give up to the strong!"''
-->-- '''Kyoko Sakura''', ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''
-->-- '''Kyoko Sakura''', ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''
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->''"The law of the universe is the law of the jungle. It's survival of the fittest! Human society cannot be an exception. A society where the number of inferior people has increased beyond a certain level loses vitality and grows weak. I ardently wish for the prosperity of the human race! Accordingly, it is my holy duty as the superintendent of humanity to exclude those elements which weaken humanity."''
-->-- '''Kaiser Rudolf von Goldenbaum''', ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes''
-->-- '''Kaiser Rudolf von Goldenbaum''', ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes''
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->''Living as they do in the shadow of the ever-present threat of starvation, is it at all surprising that the Ratmen are [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder constantly at each others' throats]]? Theirs is a society of hunger -- a world red in tooth and claw -- in which each individual must be read to look to his own survival and in which every living thing is automatically judged by its potential as either food or threat; a world without pity, mercy or compassion, where only strength and cunning are respected. A world in which there is only one law, one maxim, which holds any sway. The law that says kill-or-be-killed, eat-or-be-eaten, it's the survival of the fittest. It is the law of the wilderness.\\
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->''Living as they do in the shadow of the ever-present threat of starvation, is it at all surprising that the Ratmen [[RatMen Ratmen]] are [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder constantly at each others' throats]]? Theirs is a society of hunger -- a world red in tooth and claw -- in which each individual must be read to look to his own survival and in which every living thing is automatically judged by its potential as either food or threat; a world without pity, mercy or compassion, where only strength and cunning are respected. A world in which there is only one law, one maxim, which holds any sway. The law that says kill-or-be-killed, eat-or-be-eaten, it's the survival of the fittest. It is the law of the wilderness.\\
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->'''Papyrus:''' IF I AM TO BE THOUGH A TRUE WARRIOR, I MUST...\\
'''Sans:''' mercilessly slaughter those that are weaker than you?\\
'''Papyrus:''' SILENCE!! ...BUT YES, YOU ARE CORRECT. THE LIVES OF THE WEAK ARE JUST POINTLESS. THEY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT THEY SERVE THE STRONG.
-->--''Webcomic/{{Negativetale}}''
'''Sans:''' mercilessly slaughter those that are weaker than you?\\
'''Papyrus:''' SILENCE!! ...BUT YES, YOU ARE CORRECT. THE LIVES OF THE WEAK ARE JUST POINTLESS. THEY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT THEY SERVE THE STRONG.
-->--''Webcomic/{{Negativetale}}''
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->'''Papyrus:''' IF I AM TO BE THOUGH A TRUE WARRIOR, I MUST...\\
'''Sans:''' mercilessly slaughter those that are weaker than you?\\
'''Papyrus:''' SILENCE!! ...BUT YES, YOU ARE CORRECT. THE LIVES OF THE WEAK ARE JUST POINTLESS. THEY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT THEY SERVE THE STRONG.
-->--''Webcomic/{{Negativetale}}''
'''Sans:''' mercilessly slaughter those that are weaker than you?\\
'''Papyrus:''' SILENCE!! ...BUT YES, YOU ARE CORRECT. THE LIVES OF THE WEAK ARE JUST POINTLESS. THEY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT THEY SERVE THE STRONG.
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->'''Papyrus:''' IF I AM TO BE THOUGH A TRUE WARRIOR, I MUST...\\
'''Sans:''' mercilessly slaughter those that are weaker than you?\\
'''Papyrus:''' SILENCE!! ...BUT YES, YOU ARE CORRECT. THE LIVES OF THE WEAK ARE JUST POINTLESS. THEY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT THEY SERVE THE STRONG.
-->--''Webcomic/{{Negativetale}}''
'''Sans:''' mercilessly slaughter those that are weaker than you?\\
'''Papyrus:''' SILENCE!! ...BUT YES, YOU ARE CORRECT. THE LIVES OF THE WEAK ARE JUST POINTLESS. THEY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT THEY SERVE THE STRONG.
-->--''Webcomic/{{Negativetale}}''
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-->--Joseph DeJarnette, "Mendel's Law: a plea for a better race of men".
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-->--Joseph DeJarnette, [=DeJarnette=], "Mendel's Law: a plea for a better race of men".
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->If you are strong, you have a place, and if you are weak, you are a tool for the strong. This comes in different forms, sometimes: military force, economic coercion, ideological or ethnic purity. There's always someone trying to form a community like that, and they make up a huge portion of the people I tend to bomb when they assemble armies to conquer their neighbors.\\
[[DeconstructedTrope They all die]].\\
And not just because of me. Though let's be clear here: I kill a lot of them, and I refuse to feel bad about it.\\
They die because there are always always ''always'' more problems down there than you can survive by being personally strong.\\
A warlord tyrant with a suit of power armor will kill anyone who challenges them, until a nukefire gets them and they have no properly built shelter. A merchant king can live in luxury on the backs of their victims, but a single flesh wasp gets to them, and no one is going to risk helping them carve out the grenade tumors. A demagogue might spin a small cult into unwavering devotion, but when it's reaper bot migration season, no one is going to show up to help defend their walls.\\
And they all die.
-->-- '''Lily''', ''Literature/KittyCatKillSat''
[[DeconstructedTrope They all die]].\\
And not just because of me. Though let's be clear here: I kill a lot of them, and I refuse to feel bad about it.\\
They die because there are always always ''always'' more problems down there than you can survive by being personally strong.\\
A warlord tyrant with a suit of power armor will kill anyone who challenges them, until a nukefire gets them and they have no properly built shelter. A merchant king can live in luxury on the backs of their victims, but a single flesh wasp gets to them, and no one is going to risk helping them carve out the grenade tumors. A demagogue might spin a small cult into unwavering devotion, but when it's reaper bot migration season, no one is going to show up to help defend their walls.\\
And they all die.
-->-- '''Lily''', ''Literature/KittyCatKillSat''
