"The Reason You Suck" Speech/Literature: Difference between revisions

{{quote| "We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you up. You have seen what your body is like. Your mind is in the same state. I do not think there can be much pride left in you. You have been kicked and flogged and insulted, you have screamed with pain, you have rolled around the floor in your own blood and vomit. You have whimpered for mercy, you have betrayed everybody and everything. Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?"}}

* In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', after local watchman Captain Tantony tells Sam Vimes that his wife Sybil is in the clutches of one of the evil werewolves behind the whole evil plot, Vimes gives Tantony this:

{{quote| '''Vimes:''' You are standing there in your shiny breastplate and your silly helmet and your sword without a single notch in the blade and your stupid trousers and ''you'' are telling ''me'' that you let ''my wife'' be taken away by ''werewolves''?<br />

'''Captain Tantony:''' It was the Baron--<br />

** Special mention goes to ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]],'' where the glamor projected by the Fair Folk is enough that it makes Magrat (who has just gotten a long-awaited boost of confidence) shrink, and wither, and feel worthless for having even ''thought'' of hurting the Fairy Queen. The Fairy Queen invokes this without a ''word.''

** ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' has this from a ''golem'' to the [[Dirty Coward]] Moist von Lipwig. It's something of a kicking off point for his evolution into a better man.

{{quote| '''Mr. Pump''': You have killed two point eight people [twenty-two point eight in the tv movie]... You have stolen, embezzled, and swindled. You have ruined businesses and destroyed lives. When banks fail, it's not ''bankers'' who starve. In a thousand small ways, you have hastened the deaths of many. You did not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths and kicked their homes out from under them. For sport, Mr. Lipwig. For sport. For the joy of the game.}}

** Dumbledore does this to Voldemort a little in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (novel)|Order of the Phoenix]]''. [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Franchisenovel)/Awesome|Then Harry goes and tops it in]] in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Deathly Hallows]]''.

{{quote| '''Glaurung:''' Evil have been thy ways, son of Hurin. Thankless fosterling, outlaw, slayer of thy friend, thief of love, usurper of Nargothrond, captain foolhardy and deserter of thy kin. As thralls thy mother and sister live in Dor-lomin, in misery and want. Thou art arrayed as prince, but they go in rags; and for thee they yearn, but thou carest not for that. Glad may thy father be to learn that he hath such a son; as learn he shall. }}

{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Ender}}''': {{spoiler|Bonzo}}, [["Well Done, Son" Guy|your father would be proud of you]]. [[Sarcasm Mode|He would love to see you now]], come to fight a naked boy in a shower, smaller than you, and you brought six friends. He would say, [[Honor Before Reason|Oh, what honor]]. Be proud, {{spoiler|Bonito}}, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up {{spoiler|Ender Wiggin}}, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone - {{spoiler|Ender Wiggin}} is so ''dangerous'' and ''terrifying'' it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.}}

{{quote| '''Mr Ludovico''': Do you really think you have what it takes to be a lawyer? Lawyers are adults. Let's take a look about what it means to be an adult, shall we? Adults are independent. You, Emily, can't seem to take a step in any direction without Lydia and Cassie by your side. An adult would simply work hard to improve his marks. You, Emily, make foolish requests to have your marks altered. An adult is a rational being. ''You'' ran around last term obsessing over Amelia and Riley, and ''this'' term you're shouting to the world-- including, I might add, on some childishly hysterical blogs-- that there's a ghost living in the Art Rooms at this school! You are every inch a child, Emily, and I see no indications that you will ever grow up. Now, let me ask you this. Would I be doing my job-- ''would I be carrying out my responsibilities are principal of this school''-- if I signed a form that allowed you to be a lawyer?}}

{{quote| '''Mr Ludovico''': In the last few weeks, my school has been overrun with hysteria about your ghost. Students are refusing to enter the Art Rooms. Teachers can't get their students to concentrate. You have infected my entire student body with your childishness. There is no ghost, and yet, if I didn't sign this form, your parents would be in this office in an instant. Taking some kind of legal action, no doubt. Not letting me get away with it! Protecting their little girl! I always intended to sign it. Just thought I might try to teach you something about the real world first. Help you to grow up a little. But now I see you're a lost cause.}}

{{quote| You are the Devil. Yes. They lied to you. The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and in moving, he always returns whence he came. You are the Devil, and like the Devil, you live in darkness. [[Shut UP, Hannibal|If you wanted to convince me, you have failed.]] I hate you, {{spoiler|Jorge}}, and if I could, I would lead you downstairs, across the grounds, naked, with feathers stuck in your asshole and your face painted like a juggler and a buffoon, so that the whole monastery would laugh at you and be afraid no longer. I would like to smear honey all over you and roll you in feathers and take you on a leash to fairs, to say to all: He was announcing the truth to you and telling you that the truth has the taste of death, and you believed not in his words but in his grimness. And now I say to you that in the infinite whirl of possible things, God allows you to imagine a world where the presumed interpreter of the truth is nothing more than a clumsy raven who repeats words learned long ago.}}

{{quote| Commander Cavilo, both my parents died violently in political intrigue before I was six years old. A fact you might have researched. Did you think you were dealing with an ''amateur?''}}

{{quote| '''Sarene:''' Defiance, Iadon? I think you'll feel differently when everyone knows the truth. You know they already think you a fool. They pretend to obey you, but you know-- you know in that whispering part of your heart that they mock you with their obedience. You think they didn't hear about your lost ships? You think they weren't laughing to themselves at how their king would soon be as poor as a baron? Oh, they knew. How will you face them, Iadon, when they learn how you ''really'' survived? When I show them how I rescued your income, how I gave you the contracts in Teod, how ''I'' saved your crown. You are a fool, Iadon. I know it, your nobles know it, and the world knows it. You have taken a great nation and squashed it in your greedy hands. You have enslaved the people and you defiled Arelon's honor. And, despite it all your country grows poorer. Even you, the king, are so destitute that only a gift from Teod lets you keep your crown. How will it look, Iadon? How will it feel to have the entire court know you are indebted to a woman? A foolish girl at that? You would be revealed. Everyone would know what you are. Nothing more than an insecure, trivial, incapable invalid."}}

{{quote| '''Mrs. Reilly''': You learnt everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being.}}

{{quote| '''Ackbar''': Bureaucratic nonsense. Whatever happened to taking the measure of a man's courage, his honor--the fight in him, and the reasons in his heart. [[Not So Different|Do they all have to be as stamped-and-pressed alike as stormtroopers to get your approval]]? Get out."<br />

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