"I think her bad guys are badder than my bad guys."
— Echo, Dollhouse
"Aligning with the lesser of two evils is still siding with evil."
— Ratchet, Transformers: Prime
"But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all."
— Geralt Of Rivia, The Last Wish
"There are no good guys in this war, but at least your master wants us alive. Some of us. Your master is happy to indulge his willing servants with a semblance of freedom, and to ignore the rest; the Sleeper leaves only soul-raped corpses behind.
— Dr. Armstrong, The Delirium Brief
Blake: I can't believe we live in a world where Sienna is considered a moderate.
Ren: I think it's context. If you have one group that wants to wage an eternal war and eradicate an entire species, and another that wants to just be terrorists and kill a few people, then one is going to seem more moderate than the other, even if they really aren't.
Ren: I think it's context. If you have one group that wants to wage an eternal war and eradicate an entire species, and another that wants to just be terrorists and kill a few people, then one is going to seem more moderate than the other, even if they really aren't.
— White Sheep (RWBY), chapter 77
"Evil is evil, Stregobor. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. I'm not judging you. I haven't only done good in my life either. But now, if I have to choose between one evil and another... then I prefer not to choose at all."
— Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher (2019)
"I always thought people were essentially bright. Distracted, sure, and weak, and beaten, but never stupid. And then you show them, here is two people who want to be president. One is evil, but you can deal with him because he actually harbors beliefs. The other one will tell any lie, wear any mask, to become president, and not only that, he fucking hates you, and he's doing this just so he can make your lives hell. And who do you think they vote for? Stupid.
—Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan
O-Chul: You clearly know all about the circumstances of the destruction of Soon's Gate.
Serini Toormuck: You think? I sort of noticed all the other Gates winking out one by one.
O-Chul: Then you must know that at the time I made the decision, I had no other choice.
Serini Toormuck: Of course you had another choice!
O-Chul: To let Xykon emerge victorious?!
Serini Toormuck: Yes! Xykon is a vicious asshole, but he just wants to rule the world, not destroy it. And the world is a big place. It can survive a few years of a villain calling the shots before someone topples him.
Lien: The world might survive, but a lot of innocent people won't!
Serini Toormuck: A lot will, though. More than if everything blows up! And who knows? Some folks may end up better off. There are a lot of kobolds and orcs and trolls that aren't doing so great under the current setup. My job is protect the world. Not the status quo.
Lien: This is ridiculous! You can't just let everything be ruined and hope to fix it afterward!
Serini Toormuck: And you can't keep knocking over the gameboard whenever your side starts losing!
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would give a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
— Winston Churchill, on Britain allying with Stalin's USSR following the German invasion in 1941
I have never agreed with Jefferson once
We have fought on like seventy-five different fronts
But when all is said and all is done
Jefferson has beliefs; Burr has none.
— Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton, "The Election of 1800"
So [my doctor] does a big test on me, runs a load of things and then comes back with a big, serious face on. I said, "What's wrong?" and he goes, "Well, your cholesterol. Your cholesterol is very high." Now, my cholesterol was ludicrous. Pick-a-number-and-double-it type high.
[...]
I'm saying, "What am I gonna do?"
And he says, "Well, I'm afraid there are two things you can do. Plan A is a drug called statin. You take these drugs and you take them every day until you die."
And I went. "No fucking way, man! No fucking way. I'm a young man. I'm not eating myself into this situation where I need drugs for life. What's Plan B?"
And he said, "A harsh regime of exercise."
And I said, "Let us urgently reconsider Plan A. And in fact, I'm fuckin' angry at the way you hid Plan B behind Plan A, knowing full well I would reject Plan A out of hand and then you'd spring me with the genuinely prickish Plan B."
[...]
I'm saying, "What am I gonna do?"
And he says, "Well, I'm afraid there are two things you can do. Plan A is a drug called statin. You take these drugs and you take them every day until you die."
And I went. "No fucking way, man! No fucking way. I'm a young man. I'm not eating myself into this situation where I need drugs for life. What's Plan B?"
And he said, "A harsh regime of exercise."
And I said, "Let us urgently reconsider Plan A. And in fact, I'm fuckin' angry at the way you hid Plan B behind Plan A, knowing full well I would reject Plan A out of hand and then you'd spring me with the genuinely prickish Plan B."
— Dara Ó Briain, This Is The Show
