Broken Pedestal/Quotes

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Vince: That's your hero?
Howard: Yeah. He's gone a bit wrong.

"Horus was weak. Horus was a fool. He had the whole Galaxy in his grasp and he let it slip away."
—Abaddon, the Despoiler, Warhammer 40,000
"You want to know my vision? Dollar signs. Money. I want to retire on some tropical island filled with naked women. That's my vision. That's Zefram Cochrane. This historical guy you keep talking about: I've never met him. Can't say I ever will."
—Zefram Cochrane, Star Trek: First Contact

Judge Dredd: You killed innocent people!
Rico: A means to an end!
Judge Dredd: You started a massacre!
Rico: I caused a revolution!
Judge Dredd: YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!
Rico: LAWWWWWWWWW! I betrayed THIS! Your council's experiment which failed -- in you! I was your brother, your blood, your friend. Who betrayed who? When are you gonna stop being a goddamn slave and grow up? That's your birthright, that's your family! I'm your family, I'm the only family you ever had! Now choose!

"I Beg you. Pilot it. I believe in you. I love you.
If you hear those words, will you pilot it, Shinji? But, I can't bring myself to love you. For you, I... have never felt love."

—Gendo Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"Even so, I won't be able to regard this person with the same esteem I had before, but then he'll never again see me as just another freshman, either. I guess that's a part of growing up; finding that one's idols are just people after all.
Funny... in my whole life only one authority figure has never let me down: Dad. Make that two: Dad and Kell."

"But to you? I bet that son of a bitch looked like a hard-working family man. That was all an act."
—Jeane, No More Heroes
"If you can make God bleed, the people will cease to believe in Him."
—Ivan Vanko, Iron Man 2
"I looked up to you. I wanted to be like you. But Redtail was my mentor. I owe him more than any cat. And you killed him. You killed him and betrayed the Clan. I'd rather die than follow you."
—Dustpelt, Forest of Secrets

Gren: We fought that bloody war together. We were comrades. We risked everything shoulder to shoulder on the battleground. I looked up to you. I believed in you.
Vicious: There is nothing to believe in. There is no need to believe.

Nicholas Angel: It all started with my Uncle Derek. He was a Sergeant in the Met. He bought me a police pedal car when I was five. I rode around in it every second I was awake - arresting kids twice my size for littering and spitting. I got beaten up a lot when I was young, but it didn't stop me. I wanted to be like Uncle Derek.
Danny Butterman: He sounds like a good bloke.
Nicholas Angel: Actually, he was arrested for selling drugs to students.
Danny Butterman: What a cunt.

"I owe Mr. Amano a debt of gratitude. But he must pay his debt to society."
—Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney Investigations
"This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he's trying to kill us. What a joke."
—Carl Fredricksen, Up

Rudy: (icily) Hello... Dad.
Randy: I'm sorry, Rudy.
Rudy: Mom is the person you should apologize to! How could you?? How many half-siblings do I have??
Randy: Just the one.
Rudy: Which is bad enough. So who do I turn to now for a moral, ethical, male role model?

James Vega: You know the Commander?
Ashley/Kaidan: I used to.

Fiona: How do you know this guy who hired you?
Michael: We worked together in the Balkans, '91-'92. It was a crazy time. He seemed somewhat sane in comparison.
Fiona: And now he kills for a living.

In my second year at university, the leadership group of the Maoists was taken by the Chinese government on a tour of China.
Now in those days “foreign friends” who toured China usually reported that they had a really great time and that China was full collectives full of happy, free and prosperous workers all equal, all working for pure love of the common good, and all filled with holy zeal for the glorious word of Chairman Mao.
Somehow my friends missed out on the Potemkin village tour and got the reality tour instead. Or perhaps it is merely that the foreign friends who write those glowing reports are those who are best at closing their eyes.
When they returned they were changed men. When someone asked them about their trip they would be vague and quiet, and when they finally got around to answering they would change the subject and would not look you in the eye.
They would still tell you that China was a glorious workers paradise, but they no longer appeared to be listening to their own words, as if perhaps they could not bear to hear the words that they recited.

—James A. Donald, Confessions of an ex commie

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