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Anime and Manga
I've got no complaints as long as I get to kill who I want and steal what I want.
— Revy, Black Lagoon
Film - Animated
Success doesn't come for free, Miguel. You have to be willing to do whatever it takes to... seize your moment.
— Ernesto de la Cruz, Coco
Film - Live-Action
I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.
— Michael Corleone. The Godfather Part II
Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code.
Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines.
Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines.
What a perfect asshole.
— Wallace on Gideon Graves, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
"Victims?" Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me, would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?
— Harry Lime, The Third Man
Literature
You never did anything for anyone unless you could see what was in it for you.
— Sirius Black to Peter Pettigrew, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Jaghatai Khan: I am no tyrant.
Mortarion: We are all tyrants. Do not fool yourself. We were bred for nothing else.
Jaghatai Khan: Not I. I care nothing for dominion. Never have. You on the other hand... you yearn for it.
Mortarion: I deserve it. I always deserved it.
Mortarion: We are all tyrants. Do not fool yourself. We were bred for nothing else.
Jaghatai Khan: Not I. I care nothing for dominion. Never have. You on the other hand... you yearn for it.
Mortarion: I deserve it. I always deserved it.
Tyrion: If I told you to kill a babe... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast... would you do it? Without question?
Bronn: Without question? No. I'd ask "how much?"
Bronn: Without question? No. I'd ask "how much?"
The socialists go on about your comrades, your class, your union, and society. Fuck all that shite. The Tories go on about your employer, your country, your family. Fuck that even mair. It's me, me, fucking ME, Simon David Williamson, NUMERO FUCKING UNO, versus the world, and it's a one-sided swedge. It's really so fucking easy... Fuck them all.
— Sick Boy, Trainspotting
Live-Action TV
You're worse than a traitor, Nina. You don't even have a cause, you don't believe in anything. You would sell anyone and anything out to the highest bidder.
— Jack Bauer, 24
A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn.
— Edmund Blackadder the 3rd
All the people that we've killed; Gale and the rest? If you believe that there's a Hell - I don't know if you're into that, but we're...we're already pretty much going there, right? But I'm not going to lie down until I get there.
The boy won't talk. And if he does, I'll kill him. Him, Ned Stark, the King, the whole bloody lot of them until you and I are the only people left in this world.
— Jaime Lannister, Game of Thrones
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
— Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, Game of Thrones
I'm a man of my word... if I feel like it.
— Kilgrave, Jessica Jones
The problem is not that there is evil in the world. The problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Tabletop Games
A neutral evil villain does whatever she can get away with. She is out for herself, pure and simple. She sheds no tears for those she kills, whether for profit, sport or convenience. She has no love of order and holds no illusion that following laws, traditions or codes would make her any better or more noble. On the other hand, she doesn't have the restless nature or love of conflict that a chaotic evil villain has. [...] Some neutral evil villains hold up evil as an ideal, committing evil for its own sake. Most often, such villains are devoted to evil deities or secret societies. Neutral evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents pure evil without honor and without variation.
— Dungeons & Dragons: Player's Handbook, 3.5th Edition
I am the most important thing in creation. Do what you want, but never get caught. Conscience is for angels. Evil for evil's sake. Vice is its own reward. The sinner enjoys his life. Evil is just a word. Others envy my freedom and life without conscience.
— Introduction to Neutral Evil, Ultimate Campaign
Video Games
If I want to live, I live. If I want to take, I take. If I want you to die, THEN YOU DIE!
— Cesare Borgia, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
This man Makarov is fighting his own war and he has no rules. No boundaries. He doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide. He's not loyal to a flag or country or any set of ideals. He trades blood for money. He's your new best friend.
— Lieutenant-General Shepherd, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
You're a strange man. You killed your best friend. You betrayed everyone who ever came in contact with you. You killed my cousin. I guess... the survival of the fittest thing really meant a lot to you.
— Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto IV
Scorpion: You have no code, Kabal!
Kabal: I'm about one thing: what's best for me!
Scorpion: I stand corrected...
Kabal: I'm about one thing: what's best for me!
Scorpion: I stand corrected...
At least you died for honour. And my amusement!
—The Spy, Team Fortress 2
Jill Valentine: Nikolai, don't! The city needs that vaccine!
Nikolai Ginovaef: More than I do? Hmmm... I don't think the wisdom I've been trying to impart on you has been getting through. I know you can't put a price on life... but I'm in this business to get paid. So, let's make a deal: you go down there, battle the Nemesis, and I'll record it all and sell the combat data. Put on a good show and maybe I don't need the vaccine. Agreed? Good! [kicks Jill off ledge]
Tails: But the more your monster tears through time, the more damage you do to the world!
Eggman: The world? I'm going to own the world once I'm finished with Sonic!
Eggman: The world? I'm going to own the world once I'm finished with Sonic!
Visual Novels
People are simply things to be used. Used and thrown away.
— Matt Engarde, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All
Webcomics
Destroy anyone who has ever slighted you.
— Haerta Bloodsoak, The Order of the Stick
Basphomy: You didn't seem like the world-conquering type.
Bun-bun: Well, at least until it gets boring.
Basphomy: Then what?
Bun-bun: Then, anything I want.
Bun-bun: Well, at least until it gets boring.
Basphomy: Then what?
Bun-bun: Then, anything I want.
— Sluggy Freelance, "Holiday Wars"
Web Original
"I support the rioters and the police. The only people I'm against are the peaceful protestors."
— @richardpart2
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I always like to think I'm there for the little guy. Especially if that little guy can help this guy become a bigger guy!
— Varrick, The Legend of Korra, "The Sting"
Evil cheats. That's its nature. It does whatever unscrupulous or immoral thing it has to do to in order to win.
— Umpire, The Real Ghostbusters, "Night Game"
I was just getting what I could for myself, Fisk - as I always do. It's just good business.
— The Hobgoblin, Spider-Man: The Animated Series
Don't apologise. I never do.
"Not everyone likes to play the big villain, kid. I'm a thief. I'm not threatening your precious city - just looking out for number one."
—Red X, Teen Titans (2003)
But, now, you need to know who Saki, The Shredder, really is. He serves no great purpose, he fights no great evil. He is great evil. Any endeavor he undertakes, he does for his own selfish gain.
— Splinter on the the Utrom Shredder, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
Hmmm, maybe I should help them... or, maybe I should just help myself!
Real Life
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
In today's world, there are many authoritarian regimes. Generally speaking they are the reflection of some ideology. The tyranny that oppresses Haiti does not even have that excuse; its sole object is to place the country under tribute in order to ensure the future affluence of those now in power.
— The International Commission of Justice on the government of Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters
I figured it might provide a parable of Ayn Rand's philosophy that I could discuss. For me, that philosophy reduces itself to: "I’m on board; pull up the lifeline."
— Roger Ebert on Atlas Shrugged Part I
