Evil Cannot Comprehend Good/Quotes
Evil... has every advantage but one - it is inferior in imagination. Good can imagine the possibility of becoming evil... but Evil, defiantly chosen, can no longer imagine anything but itself."
—W.H. Auden on The Lord of the Rings
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Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom or truth, perhaps peace, could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose, and all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although - only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? WHY DO YOU PERSIST?!
—Agent Smith, The Matrix Revolutions
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Cartman: You see guys, it all worked itself out. Tadow, tadow, how you like me now? Feel a little silly now, Kyle? Tadow, how you like me now? —South Park, "Toilet Paper"
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Elan: I saved you 'cause I'm the Good twin, not the Neutral twin. |
Blind you are, Morgoth Bauglir, and blind shall ever be, seeing only the dark. You know not what rules the hearts of men, and if you knew you could not give it.
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Sephiroth: Tell me what you cherish most. Give me the pleasure of taking it away. |
Agent 146: I'm stupid? Don't you realize the chip is power? Communications, politics, money ... anything! And you're pissing it away! —A Girl and Her Fed, p. 664.
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Cyber-Leader: (watching from above as humans and Cybermen fight) I ordered surrender. —Doctor Who, "Doomsday"
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If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.
—Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter
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Zidane: As long as there's hope, I'm not going anywhere. |
Only you would regard love as a weakness.
—Goliath to Xanatos, Gargoyles
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Tao En: Impossible. Why are you getting up? Don't you fear me? Why do you fight so hard for one another?! |
There are those who say that to comprehend evil is to become evil; but they are merely pretending to be wise. Rather it is evil which does not know love, and dares not imagine love, and cannot ever understand love without ceasing to be evil. And I suspect that you can imagine your way into the minds of Dark Wizards better than I ever could, while still knowing love yourself.
—Dumbledore, Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality
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It was a harrowing experience, but I don't hold a grudge. We should love our enemies. It makes them so damned mad.
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You still don't get it, do you? Huh?! This ain't about your money, bro, your boy gave you up. That's right. And we ain't had to torture his ass neither!
—Omar Little, The Wire
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Choudhury: What about the man in the red suit? |
Forget about [the Chum Bucket], I just can't take so much kindness in one sitting! Need... hatred...
—Plankton, SpongeBob SquarePants "Walking Small"
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[Supreme Chancellor Fey'lya] lives in a world where alliances shift by the moment. Borsk does what Borsk needs to do, at any given moment, to benefit Borsk. And he's so jaded by that political philosophy that he thinks everyone else plays by the same rules.
—Luke Skywalker, Vector Prime
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A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping… Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
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Saffron: Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts. |
Man is mortal, and doomed to death and failure and loss. |
Logical? Is it? To a machine, perhaps. Yes... A soulless machine might make that deduction. But not Lex Luthor. I know better! I know that no man with the power of Superman would ever pretend to be a mere human! Such power is to be constantly exploited. Such power is to be used!!
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