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* ''Literature/TheBible'':
** UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} lays down a few of these, usually directed at the [[CorruptChurch Pharisees]]. He also had a tendency to lambast crowds as he was teaching them, such as this quote from [[Literature/TheFourGospels Matthew 21:31]] (New American Standard Bible):
--->''"Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you."
** Matthew Chapter 23 is one of these, often titled "The Seven Woes" with each of the seven sections starting out "Woe unto thee, Pharisees and givers of the law, [[{{Hypocrite}} you hypocrites!]]"
** In the ''Literature/BookOfJonah'', God Himself calls out Jonah at the end for having SkewedPriorities, namely weeping that a plant that gave him shade has died but being fine with the city of Nineveh being smitten to ash.
--->"You cared about the plant, which you did not work for and which you did not grow, which appeared overnight and perished overnight. And should not I care about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not yet know their right hand from their left, and many beasts as well!"

--> "You sittin' on the couch watching TV as your life is passing you by. You keep procrastinating over and over, well maybe I'll go to school next year or maybe next semester. No, do it right now! You spend all day on the phone anyway, why don't you make the call that's going to help you in your future? All you have to do is pick up the phone and make the call. Why are you making it so complicated? It's easy!"

--> Let me tell you who to blame. [[HarmfulToMinors Blame the boy lying at your feet,]] [[WouldHurtAChild his body oozing life through the hole in his stomach where the bullet tore him apart.]] Blame him for challenging you, for not looking away and for not backing down when you pulled out the gun. [[ParentalIssues Blame your mother for]] [[TeenPregnancy bringing you into this world when she was but a kid herself,]] [[AbusiveParents and dragging you up, not bringing you up.]] [[CrapsackWorld Blame society for not giving you hope.]] [[ParentalNeglect Blame your father for not being there, the man who looked after himself,]] [[FreudianExcuse instead of looking after you.]] Blame the gun in your hand for making you a target, for making you more likely to be picked on. [[NeverMyFault Blame the dead boy, blame your mother, blame society, blame your father, blame the gun, blame]] '''[[NeverMyFault anyone]]''' but ''yourself for not being strong enough to put down the gun, to break the cycle!''

--->"Peter, what you did to me today was as mean as anything you've ever done. This past week, when I read those notes, for the first time in my life I felt really attractive and special. I felt like someone out there really cared about me. And today was the day I was going to meet him. Do you have any idea how happy and nervous and excited I was?! Then ''you'' pop out and laugh, 'ha ha ha, Sucker- it was all a joke!' [[DudeNotFunny Well, it wasn't a joke to me, and it certainly wasn't what I would call funny]]!"
* An understated one in ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'': The titular character's [[SoapBoxSadie activist friend]] Delta left town to attend college, but phoned to congratulate Luann on voting for the first time (they had all recently turned 18 and just experienced their first election.) After Luann starts rattling off excuses as to why she hadn't found time, Delta simply responded with "Y'know, maybe it's better that you didn't vote, Luann. Only serious, mature citizens should vote" and hung up. It left Luann asking around if she was really ''that'' bad for not bothering to vote, and her own boyfriend seemed to agree with Delta ([[{{Anvilicious}} it turned out that Luann was the only one in her friend group who never got around to voting.]]) Delta was never seen in the strip again after this.

** In ''All-Stars'', ninth-placer Lex van den Berghe delivers one to finalists [[TheChessmaster Rob]] and [[{{Shorttank}} Amber]] that's littered with MoralMyopia, since he's berating them for making very similar moves that he made prior to being voted out:
--->"It's just a game. That's something we've probably all said a thousand times while we were out here. And I'm sure that for both of you, it was an excuse that helped wash away the guilt as you played the game the way that you played it. You know what? That phrase, 'it's just a game'? It's a big lie. It's not just a game. For all of us out here, for all of you, it's life. And the line between game and life is not cut and dried. Life blurs into the game constantly. This game exposes who we are as people to the core. It's like truth serum. And I think the way you play this game is representative of the kind of person you are. The hardest lesson I learned out here was about friendship and betrayal. And I think the true measure of a man is what kind of friend he is. What kind of a friend are you, Rob? What kind of a friend were you to me? You asked me to do you a favor. Bro to bro. Friend to friend. And I did the only thing I could do, and that was to answer the call of a friend in need. You repaid that by putting a knife in my back. As far as this game's concerned, I lost, and you both beat me. No sour grapes, no bitterness. With all sincerity, I congratulate both of you for making it to the final two. But as I see it, as good as your game was, you sold out your values, you sold out your character, and you sold out your friends for a stack of greenbacks. I hope it was worth it, because that money will never be enough to buy it all back."

** In the short-story ''The Last Church'', part of the Literature/HorusHeresy range, Uriah Olathaire, the last Christian priest on Earth delivers an epic one to Revelation [[spoiler:AKA ''The Emperor Himself'']], calling him out on his hypocrisy and brutality, and pointing out just how his plan for a unified Empire of Mankind will fail, before choosing to burn with his beloved church rather than take part in His vision.

--->'''Angron''': What would you know of struggle, Perfect Son? When have you fought against the mutilation of your mind? when have you had to do anything more than tally compliances and polish your armour?" [...] The people of your world named you Great One. The people of mine called me Slave. Which one of us landed on a paradise of civilisation to be raised by a foster father, Roboute? Which one of us was given armies to lead after training in the halls of the Macraggian high-riders? Which one of us inherited a strong, cultured kingdom? And which one of us had to rise up against a kingdom with nothing but a horde of starving slaves? Which one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his brain cut up by carving knives? Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour.
** To which Guilliman retorts ''"You’re still a slave, Angron. Enslaved by your past, blind to the future. Too hateful to learn. Too spiteful to prosper."'' Angron despised the Butcher's Nails [[{{Hypocrite}} but was happy to implant them into his own legion]], and he ignored how much the other Primarchs struggled: Sanguinius civilised a world of mutant cannibals, Mortarion was raised on a poisonous world where everyone feared him but he still helped people, and Konrad Curze in all his horror and brutality brought a semblence of order to the most nightmarish WretchedHive in the galaxy. All Angron ever did was blame others for the unfairness in his life.

** During Lord [[SinisterMinister Goge Vandire]]'s Reign of Blood, his bodyguard Alicia Dominica realized just how evil he really was. She promply prepared to execute Lord Vandire -- but not before an epic pre-killing speech.

-->''"Why do I still live? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they've done to our dream. This bloated, rotting carcass of an empire is not driven by reason and hope, but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we all burned in the fires of Horus' ambition than lived to see this."''

** In a scene not officially published anywhere, only showing up in one of Toys/{{Lego}}'s internal guides, Pohatu's shadow duplicate dishes one out to the real Pohatu, detailing all the ways the five other Toa are rounded individuals who play clear-cut roles in their team, whereas he is just TheGenericGuy who doesn't stand out. [[InsultBackfire This backfires though]], as Pohatu gleefully agrees with his evil self's speech, gaining strength from the fact that he's a down to earth friend to the other Toa who keeps the team together.

* An understated one in ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'': The titular character's [[SoapBoxSadie activist friend]] Delta left town to attend college, but phoned to congratulate Luann on voting for the first time (they had all recently turned 18 and just experienced their first election.) After Luann starts rattling off excuses as to why she hadn't found time, Delta simply responded with "Y'know, maybe it's better that you didn't vote, Luann. Only serious, mature citizens should vote" and hung up. It left Luann asking around if she was really ''that'' bad for not bothering to vote, and even her own boyfriend seemed to agree with Delta ([[{{Anvilicious}} it turned out that Luann was the only one in her friend group who never got around to voting.]]) It should also be noted that Delta was never seen in the strip again after this.

* "Literature/TheThreeSnakeLeaves": When the princess begs for forgiveness, her father flatly replies she cannot expect mercy after murdering the man who was willing to die with her and even found a way to bring her back to life when she passed away.

** The entirety of Matthew Chapter 23 is one of these, often titled "The Seven Woes" with each of the seven sections starting out "Woe unto thee, Pharisees and givers of the law, [[{{Hypocrite}} you hypocrites!]]"
** In the ''Literature/BookOfJonah'', God himself calls out Jonah at the end for having SkewedPriorities, namely weeping that a plant that gave him shade has died but being fine with the entire city of Nineveh being smitten to ash.
--->"You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labour and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?"

-->"Mick: Day One, they put a leadership necklace around your neck. I go 39 days, struggling to find a reason that you deserve that title. You did nothing: you did nothing with your team, you did nothing to encourage them. Nobody on that team had any guts; ''you're'' responsible for that. Russell: this hurts me. We had '''nothing''' in common... You played an unethical game, ''admittedly'' played an unethical game. The crazy thing about it is you're sittin' there; I'm standing here. Did you get to the right place by behaving the wrong way? I've never been in a situation [in] my entire life where that was the case, but you sit there proud of it! Natalie: people will call you weak, people will say that you are undeserving... but you know what? Why are those characteristics any less 'admirable' [than] lying, cheating, and stealing? Why does [Russell] get a free pass but your 'wrong' way of playing is admonished? If there's one thing that I learned in this game, it's that ''(to the jury)'' '''perception is not reality'''! Reality is reality, and ''(to Natalie)'' you are sitting there, and that makes you just as dangerous as any one of those guys there. You would say that you are least deserving of the title of SoleSurvivor, but maybe (just maybe) in an environment filled with arrogance [and] delusional entitlement, maybe the person who thinks she's least deserving is probably the most."

-->"It's just a game. That's something we've probably all said a thousand times while we were out here. And I'm sure that for both of you, it was an excuse that helped wash away the guilt as you played the game the way that you played it. You know what? That phrase, 'it's just a game'? It's a big lie. It's not just a game. For all of us out here, for all of you, it's life. And the line between game and life is not cut and dried. Life blurs into the game constantly. This game exposes who we are as people to the core. It's like truth serum. And I think the way you play this game is representative of the kind of person you are. The hardest lesson I learned out here was about friendship and betrayal. And I think the true measure of a man is what kind of friend he is. What kind of a friend are you, Rob? What kind of a friend were you to me? You asked me to do you a favor. Bro to bro. Friend to friend. And I did the only thing I could do, and that was to answer the call of a friend in need. You repaid that by putting a knife in my back. As far as this game's concerned, I lost, and you both beat me. No sour grapes, no bitterness. With all sincerity, I congratulate both of you for making it to the final two. But as I see it, as good as your game was, you sold out your values, you sold out your character, and you sold out your friends for a stack of greenbacks. I hope it was worth it, because that money will never be enough to buy it all back."

-->"I could not have put more effort into yesterday. I fragged myself to the bone yesterday to try and make this thing work. Your reasons for bringing me in here just do not stack up. One, on a personal level, and two, on a business level. Sir Alan said he does not know about my personal stuff. He knows about it because you talked about it, because Kristina talked about it. Fine, been that, but if you want to go personal, I'll go personal. I very much strongly advise you not to take down the personal route. At a business level, you have one speed setting, and that speed setting is slow, slow, slow! Someone put the wrong speed dial in when they created you, sweetie, which is why when the phone rings, I always drop. Because I know that phone call will take forever to hear something either I know, or I can get done quicker myself. So you know what? You're just barking up the wrong tree!"

-->"You are representing businesswomen today, one of which I am. And I have to say, it is outrageous the way you're behaving. 75% of my management team are women, and I've never come across anything like this. And I think you have to remember who you're representing in this process. Young women out there who want to have an opportunity to do this - you should be an example to them."

-->"Well, first of all, everything was wrong. The volume was wrong, the margins were wrong, the techniques of selling were wrong. I struggle to find anything that you did right, really. But it wasn't just you -- I think it was everybody in the team who just failed to perform."

-->'''Angron''': What would you know of struggle, Perfect Son? When have you fought against the mutilation of your mind? when have you had to do anything more than tally compliances and polish your armour?" [...] The people of your world named you Great One. The people of mine called me Slave. Which one of us landed on a paradise of civilisation to be raised by a foster father, Roboute? Which one of us was given armies to lead after training in the halls of the Macraggian high-riders? Which one of us inherited a strong, cultured kingdom? And which one of us had to rise up against a kingdom with nothing but a horde of starving slaves? Which one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his brain cut up by carving knives? Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour.

-->''"You have committed the ultimate heresy. Not only have you turned your back on the [[GodEmperor Emperor]] and stepped from his light, you have profaned his name and almost destroyed everything he has striven to build. You have perverted and twisted the path he has laid for Mankind to tread. As your decrees have stated, there can be no mercy for such a crime, no pity for such a criminal. I renounce your lordship, you walk in the darkness and cannot be allowed to live. Your sentence has been long overdue and it is now time for you to die."''

-->''"And you're a traitor. You turned your back on your ideals, your friends, your city, all to save your own worthless hide. Why would you ever think I would trust you, Nidhiki?"''

-->''"You really should have known," the Shadowed One said to Nidhiki. "Roodaka wanted something from me. She attempted to use the report of your conversation to buy it, but I insisted on more. If you were still deluding yourself that you could go back to being a Toa, that you could wash the stain of treachery off your spirit that easily, I was going to strip that dream from you once and for all. You are a monster, Nidhiki. Matoran seeing you would run screaming. You will never be cheered, never be admired, never be hailed as a savior by the crowds. What are you now? A Toa of Nightmares? A hero, Nidhiki, or a horror? No, I think you will find your place is now, and forevermore, with the Dark Hunters. For who else would have you? It's ironic, in a way. Your friend Lhikan could have ended your misery back on Metru Nui, but he chose not to. No doubt he thought he was doing you a favor when he allowed you to leave, unharmed, with us. Someday, you really should thank him properly."''

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', the Great Dragon Hestaby gives one of these to Aztechnology, the MayIncaTec MegaCorp that runs Aztlan and secretly runs itself on BloodMagic, in the intro story to SOTA 2073. For added fun, she did so ''publicly''. At the United Nations Assembly.

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* Ultimately averted in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot''. Roger Fox is tasked with trying to secure a raise for his boss, Pembrook, at a time when the company is having to lay people off. He's prepared to tell him that [[ThisIsUnforgivable it's unacceptably selfish of him to take a raise at a time when the company is in peril and good, hard-working people are losing their job]], but a panel reveals that he's merely [[TrickDialogue rehearsing the speech]], and at the end of the arc, he doesn't manage to go through with it.

-->''"You really should have known," the Shadowed One said to Nidhiki. "Roodaka wanted something from me. She attempted to use the report of your conversation to buy it, but I insisted on more. If you were still deluding yourself that you could go back to being a Toa, that you could wash the stain of treachery off your spirit that easily, I was going to strip that dream from you once and for all."''

* [[http://youtu.be/9u-Z1zU9Sho?t=18s This]] PublicServiceAnnouncement features Creator/SamuelLJackson giving one to anyone who [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse hides behind excuses]] for resorting to gun violence.

* [[http://youtu.be/9u-Z1zU9Sho?t=18s This]] PublicServiceAnnouncement features Creator/SamuelLJackson giving one to anyone who [[FreudianExcuseIsNotExcuse hides behind excuses]] for resorting to gun violence.

* [[http://youtu.be/9u-Z1zU9Sho?t=18s This]] PublicServiceAnnouncement features Creator/SamuelLJackson giving one to anyone who hides behind excuses for resorting to gun violence.

--> Let me tell you who to blame. [[HarmfulToMinors Blame the boy lying at your feet,]] [[WouldHurtAChild his body oozing life through the hole in his stomach where the bullet tore him apart.]] Blame him for challenging you, for not looking away and for not backing down when you pulled out the gun. [[ParentalIssues Blame your mother for]] [[TeenPregnancy bringing you into this world when she was but a kid herself,]] [[AbusiveParents and dragging you up, not bringing you up.]] [[CrapsackWorld Blame society for not giving you hope.]] [[ParentalNeglect Blame your father for not being there, the man who looked after himself,]] [[FreudianExcuse instead of looking after you.]] Blame the gun in your hand for making you a target, for making you more likely to be picked on. [[NeverMyFault Blame the dead boy, blame your mother, blame society, blame your father, blame the gun, blame]] '''[[NeverMyFault anyone]]''' [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped but]] ''[[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped yourself for not being strong enough to put down the gun, to break the cycle!]]''

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'', the archmage Meredoth gave a rather vicious one to an agent of the Fraternity of Shadows, a group of illusionists and mind mages who believe themselves able to usurp the Dark Powers. Meredoth points out not only their ''incredible'' hubris in thinking such a thing is possible (the only entity ''in the multiverse'' we know of that has been able to overcome the Dark Powers was Vecna, a literal ''god!''), but also their use of what he considers a minor and mostly useless type of magic compared to toher schools. Real mages, according to him, shouldn't hide in shadows. They should use their powers to take whatever they want.