Knight Templar/Quotes

Death Note
""You think.... I'm evil?! I am Justice! I protect the innocent and those who fear evil! I'll become the God of the new world that everyone desires! All those who oppose that God... they are the ones who are truly evil!""

- Light Yagami, just before killing Lind L. Tailor

""If you choose to withhold your worst criminals, I'll kill petty criminals or the innocent. I'm holding the whole world hostage so who's it gonna be? I'm not the evil one here. But you who would oppose me by hiding criminals, you are truly evil.""

- L, explaining Kira's mentality.

""Evil must be deleted.""

- Teru Mikami, during his introduction.

Planescape: Torment
""Perfection through Punishment. ""

- Vhailor

"Vhailor: When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe. The Nameless One: I see. Vhailor: No you do not see. Pray that you will never see. "

""Justice is not blind... for I am Her eyes!""

- Vhailor

Warhammer 40,000
""The weak will always be led by the strong. Where the strong see purpose and act, the weak follow; where the strong cry out against fate, the weak bow their heads and succumb. There are many who are weak; and many are their temptations. Despise the weak for they shall flock to the call of the Daemon and the Renegade. Pity them not and scorn their cries of innocence - it is better that one hundred innocents fall before the wrath of the Emperor than one kneels before the Daemon.""

- The First Book of Indoctrinations

""We are at War with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thoughts. They are not worthy of Inquisitors in the service of Our Emperor. Praise His name for in our resolve we only reflect his purpose of will.""

- Inquisitor Enoch

""We must be unsleeping in vigilance. Swift in judgment. Merciless in deed. ""

- Codex Arbites

""I carry with me an Inquisitorial Seal. It is a small, unassuming object contained in a neat box of Pluvian obsidian. It is a modest thing. Relatively plain, adorned with a single motif and a simple motto. Yet with this little object I can sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion souls to Oblivion.""

- Inquisitor Thraviam Flast

""Damnation starts with little steps, by arrogantly thinking that you are wiser than our great forebears, by tinkering with truth, by compromising, by departing from the straight and narrow path of the Emperor's light.""

- Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines

""A moment of Laxity spawns a lifetime of heresy. Never forgive, never forget.""

- Credo Dark Angel

""It is not my mind to ask questions that cannot be answered. That is the soul standing upon the crossroad of vacillation. You search for wisdom, but achieve only a stasis of will.""

- Inquisitor Lichenstein

""A mind without purpose will wander in dark places.""

- Imperial Proverb

""Duty is not a word coined in idleness, duty being the first grace the Emperor extends to the newborn, and the last connection with Him to comfort the dying, and so the forsaking of it is damnation in evident form.""

- Arbiter Shira Calpurnia

Discworld
""But ... I ... I ... I'm the good one. I can't lose. I'm the fairy godmother. You're the wicked witch.""

- Lilith de Tempscire, Witches Abroad

""...it dawned on [Vimes] that while Ankh in the past had had its share of evil rulers, and simply bad rulers, it had never yet come under the heel of a good ruler. That might be the most terrifying prospect of all.""

- Terry Pratchett

""It's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.""

- Miss Felicity Beedle, speaking to the very same Vimes in Snuff

Other works
""Is my soul that low a price, Or is vigilantism repulsive? The first for all sane humans. The latter for all those I'll slaughter.""

- Carlos Albuquerque, I wanna be a hero when I grow up.

"''"I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more dangerous I think it both to rulers and to the subjects. Hence Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point may be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely more because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations. And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be. A metaphysic held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign. It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated. In a word, it forbids wholesome doubt. A political programme can never in reality be more than probably right. We never know all the facts about the present and we can only guess the future. To attach to a party programme -- whose highest claim is to reasonable prudence -- the sort of assent which we should reserve for demonstrable theorems, is a kind of intoxication. "''"

- C. S. Lewis on Theocracy

""What PDX didn't realize is that to be a good ruler, you have to be ruthless. You simply can't tolerate failure.""

- Evil Trestkon, The Nameless Mod

""All said and done, my friends, it will be an ill day for us if what most humans mean by "religion" ever vanishes from the Earth. It can still send us the truly delicious sins. The fine flower of unholiness can grow only in the close neighborhood of the Holy. Nowhere do we tempt so successfully as on the very steps of the altar.""

- Screwtape, Screwtape Proposes a Toast

""No rest. No mercy. No matter what.""

- Akroma, Angel of Wrath, Magic: The Gathering

""He will always do what is right, no matter who it hurts.""

- Min, on Galad, Wheel of Time

"The Secretary of Defense: But you don't lose much sleep over those ten men, do you Hathaway? Hathaway: We lost ten and saved thousands. I sleep like a baby, Mr. Secretary."

- Impostor

""For all the butchery of Moebius's crusade, this massacre was somehow more chilling. The killing fields of the Sarafan betrayed a kind of orderly ruthlessness, the cold-blooded righteousness of the true believer.""

- Raziel, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

""Absolute Justice...sometimes drives a man insane.""

- Admiral Aokiji, One Piece

""There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.""

- Mr. Wednesday, American Gods

""A Jedi does not yield to pride. Nor does he yield to empty threats. He follows only the dictates of his own destiny."

"Then choose your destiny. I'm told the role of the Jedi is to serve and defend."

"You were told wrongly. The role of the Jedi is to lead and guide, and to destroy all threats.""

- Exchange between Jorus C'baoth and Commander Thrawn, Outbound Flight

""If I knew that there was a man coming to my house with the fixed intention of doing me good, I would run for my life.""

- Henry David Thoreau

""I wish to create a perfect world, without a speck of filth.""

- Keisuke Nago, Kamen Rider IXA

""Because, damnit, he's actually right about some of the things he's saying. It really would be nice if everyone had a puppy, and people helped each other get the leaves out of their gutters, and anyone who parked in a disabled spot without a permit was summarily made to defend a goal for 20 minutes against a wheelchair rugby team. It's just the methods that are wrong: You can't give everyone a puppy by detonating the entire Pacific Ring of Fire in an attempt to drain the ocean and uncover the lost city of Atlantis so you can retrieve their lost knowledge and become ruler of the world. (It's not in the Pacific, for starters.)""

- Darths and Droids #329, rant

"''"Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him."''"

- Proverbs 26:12

""You see, evil is like a seed. And although you did not choose to interact with these lower beasts, by socializing with them, that seed has been placed within you. As a result, you may one day grow to empathize with their evil ways. I cannot allow that risk to exist. All evil, even potential evil, must be eradicated.""

- Kore, Dwarven Paladin from Goblins, to a kidnapped orphan that he is about to kill.

""Everyone is guilty of something. Everyone deserves to be punished. But isn't there crime in punishment?""

- Sonny 2, combined descriptions for the Warden's armor

""Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.""

- "Let justice be done, though the world should perish" - Motto of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

""In conclusion, I'd just like to say, on this historic week, that the legacy of the religious right will be that, despite their holy pretenses, they made politics not cleaner, but dirtier, because when you're so sure you're right, you wind up acting so wrong.""

- Bill Maher, during the week of the 2006 US election, on Ted Haggard being caught with a gay prostitute.

""Soon there will be war. Millions will burn. Millions will perish in sickness and misery. Why does one death matter against so many? Because there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon I shall not compromise in this. But there are so many deserving of retribution ... and there is so little time.""

- Rorschach, Watchmen

""I will always attempt to do the Right Thing... even it means killing every last man, woman and child in this here town, twice over.""

- Jonah Hex

""Our great mission is to win this war against the Soulless Ones! Whatever the cost - whatever it takes - we must win. Our one path to salvation is the Elixir, forbidden by others in their ignorance... but that is a tragedy that must not be allowed! The Elixir offers strength, and the more we drink, the stronger we become. Their strength shall become our strength.""

-, Lusternia

""If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart.""

- Henri Ducard, Batman Begins

"''"Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin, And he saw corruption everywhere...except within."''"

- Clopin, from the Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame

""How cruel can people become for the sake of justice?""

- Eiji Hino, Kamen Rider OOO

""This whole city... This Sodom will be cleansed all at once.""

- Agent Nelson Van Alden, Boardwalk Empire

""You fucking dummies shot a guard![...]Fortunately though, for you, this guard, who is two-thirds to a retard, has miraculously clung to life. Now, if it were up to me, and they gave me two minutes and a wet towel, I would personally asphyxiate this half-wit so we could string you up on a federal M1 and end this story with a bag on your head and a paralyzing agent running through your veins.""

- Special Agent Adam Frawley, The Town

""Salvation comes with a cost. Judge us not by our methods, but what we seek to accomplish.""

- The Illusive Man, Mass Effect

""He is a man seemingly without Conscience for whom the Ends always justifies the means.""

- V, V for Vendetta

"Mal: I don't murder children. The Operative: I do. If I have to. Mal: Why? Do you even know why they sent you? The Operative: It's not my place to ask. I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin. Mal: So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so you can live in your better world? The Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there...any more than there is for you. Malcolm...I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done."

- Serenity

"''"Let's pray that heaven is on our side Through violence and horror shall honor arise So let's pray, and blessed shall be our leader We follow the noble and bright"''"

- Blind Guardian, "Battlefield"

""The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!""

- Matthew 6:22-23, The Bible

""Let me see if I understand this, you married the daughter of your lord's enemy in what you would deem was a heathen ceremony, swore loyalty to him, betrayed him and committed uxoricide, cursed a people so mightily that unknown amounts of death and misery were caused. And you did all of this in the name of God?""

- Oswald, The Oswald Chronicles

""Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.""

- Captain Malcolm Reynolds from the Firefly episode "Heart of Gold," about Rance Burgess.

""The destiny of Evil is to be annihilated.""

- Yuri Pietrov, Tiger and Bunny

""God thinks all people like you are hateful God thinks all people like you are an embarrassment to creation Self-righteous, judgemental, first to throw a stone And using His name for your own protection""

- Voltaire, God Thinks

""The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.""

- Menander

""For the Greater Good.""

- Gellert Grindelwald, Harry Potter