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{{quote|''Do not put your faith''<br />
''In [[Superheroes Wear Capes|a cape and a hood,]]''<br />
''They will not protect you''<br />
''The way that they should.''<br />
''And take extra care of strangers,''<br />
''Even flowers have their dangers,''<br />
''And though scary is exciting,''<br />
''[[Affably Evil|Nice]] is different than [[Good Is Not Nice|good.]]''|'''Little Red Riding Hood''', ''Into the Woods''}}
 
{{quote|''Do not put your faith''<br />
{{quote|You're all so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice. Well I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right!|'''The Witch''', ''[[Into the Woods]]''}}
''In [[Superheroes Wear Capes|a cape and a hood,]]''<br />
''They will not protect you''<br />
''The way that they should.''<br />
''And take extra care of strangers,''<br />
''Even flowers have their dangers,''<br />
''And though scary is exciting,''<br />
''[[Affably Evil|Nice]] is different than [[Good Is Not Nice|good.]]''|'''Little Red Riding Hood''', ''Into the Woods''}}
|'''Little Red Riding Hood''', ''Into the Woods''}}
 
{{quote|You're all so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice. Well I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right!|'''The Witch''', ''[[Into the Woods]]''}}
{{quote|''[[Trope Namer|Good is not nice]], [[Nice to The Waiter|polite]], well-mannered, [[Knight Templar|self-righteous]], or [[Good Is Dumb|naive]], though good characters may be some of these things.''|'''The Book of Exalted Deeds''', ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''}}
|'''The Witch''', ''[[Into the Woods]]''}}
 
{{quote|''[[Trope Namer|Good is not nice]], [[Nice to Thethe Waiter|polite]], well-mannered, [[Knight Templar|self-righteous]], or [[Good Is Dumb|naive]], though good characters may be some of these things.''|'''The Book of Exalted Deeds''', ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''}}
{{quote|Mercy is the mark of a great man. (''stab'') Guess I'm just a good man. (''stab'') Well, I'm alright.|'''Malcolm Reynolds''', ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]''}}
|'''The Book of Exalted Deeds''', ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''}}
 
{{quote|Mercy is the mark of a great man. (''stab'') Guess I'm just a good man. (''stab'') Well, I'm alright.|'''Malcolm Reynolds''', ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]''}}
{{quote|"Sweet," maybe. "Passionate," I suppose. But don't ever mistake that for "nice." |'''The Doctor''', ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''}}
|'''Malcolm Reynolds''', ''[[Firefly]]''}}
 
{{quote|"IsSweet," hemaybe. -- quite safe?"Passionate," I shallsuppose. feelBut ratherdon't nervousever aboutmistake meetingthat afor lion"nice."<br />
|'''The Doctor''', ''[[Doctor Who]]''}}
"That you will, dearie, and no mistake," said Mrs. Beaver, "if there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most or else just silly."<br />
"Then he isn't safe?" said Lucy.<br />
"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver. "Don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the king, I tell you."|''[[Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]''}}
 
{{quote|"Is he -- quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion."
{{quote|Better is open rebuke than hidden love. [[Et Tu, Brute?|Wounds from a friend]] can be trusted, [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|but an enemy multiplies kisses]].|''[[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]'' (New International Version), Proverbs 27:5-6}}
"That you will, dearie, and no mistake," said Mrs. Beaver, "if there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most or else just silly."<br />
"Then he isn't safe?" said Lucy.<br />
"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver. "Don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the king, I tell you."|''[[Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]''}}
|''[[Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]''}}
 
{{quote|Better is open rebuke than hidden love. [[Et Tu, Brute?|Wounds from a friend]] can be trusted, [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|but an enemy multiplies kisses]].|''[[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]'' (New International Version), Proverbs 27:5-6}}
{{quote|Speak when spoken to, Uvenk. I'll drag your clan to glory whether you like it or not.|'''Urdnot Wrex''', [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Krogan]] Overlord of [[Death World|Tuchanka]], ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''}}
|''[[The Bible]]'' (New International Version), Proverbs 27:5-6}}
 
{{quote|Speak when spoken to, Uvenk. I'll drag your clan to glory whether you like it or not.
{{quote|Please, trust me. I most definitely ''can'' be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.|'''Death''', ''[[The Book Thief]]'' }}
{{quote|Speak when spoken to, Uvenk. I'll drag your clan to glory whether you like it or not.|'''Urdnot Wrex''', [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Krogan]] Overlord of [[Death World|Tuchanka]], ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''}}
 
{{quote|Please, trust me. I most definitely ''can'' be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.|'''Death''', ''[[The Book Thief]]'' }}
{{quote|I sacrificed thousands of lives to save the ''Destiny Ascension''! I unleashed the rachni on the galaxy! So for your sake, hope your escape plan doesn't hinge on me hesitating to shoot a damn hostage!|'''[[The Paragon|Paragon Shepard]]''', ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''}}
|'''Death''', ''[[The Book Thief]]'' }}
 
{{quote|I don't have time to justify myself to your viewers. I have a galaxy to save.|'''[[Player Character|Commander Shepard]]''', ''[[Mass Effect 1 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 1]]''}}
{{quote|If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.|''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men at Arms]]'', on Carrot Ironfoundersson }}
|'''[[Player Character|Commander Shepard]]''', ''[[Mass Effect (video game)|Mass Effect 1]]''}}
{{quote|I sacrificed thousands of lives to save the ''Destiny Ascension''! I unleashed the rachni on the galaxy! So for your sake, hope your escape plan doesn't hinge on me hesitating to shoot a damn hostage!|'''[[The Paragon|Paragon Shepard]]''', ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''}}
|'''[[The Paragon|Paragon Shepard]]''', ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''}}
 
{{quote|If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.|''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men at Arms]]'', on Carrot Ironfoundersson }}
{{quote|You may be a hero, Jack Knight, but that still doesn't make you a nice person.|'''[[New Old Flame|Lucy]]''', ''[[Starman (Comic Book)|Starman #17]]''}}
|''[[Men at Arms]]'', on Carrot Ironfoundersson }}
 
{{quote|You may be a hero, Jack Knight, but that still doesn't make you a nice person.|'''[[New Old Flame|Lucy]]''', ''[[Starman (Comic Book)|Starman #17]]''}}
{{quote|We're the [[God-Emperor|Emperor's]] [[Super Soldier|Angels of Death]], [[Naive Newcomer|Thaddeus]], not His Angels of Mercy.|'''Sgt. Avitus''', ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]: [[Dawn of War]] 2''}}
|'''[[New Old Flame|Lucy]]''', ''[[Starman (comics)|Starman #17]]''}}
 
{{quote|We're the [[God-Emperor|Emperor's]] [[Super Soldier|Angels of Death]], [[Naive Newcomer|Thaddeus]], not His Angels of Mercy.|'''Sgt. Avitus''', ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]: [[Dawn of War]] 2''}}
{{quote|People like you always mistake compassion for weakness. [[Knight in Shining Armor|Michael and Sanya]] aren't weak. Fortunately for you, they are good men. [[Shut UP, Hannibal|Unfortunately for you]], ''[[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|I'm not.]]''|'''[[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]]''', ''Death Masks'' }}
|'''Sgt. Avitus''', ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]: [[Dawn of War]] 2''}}
 
{{quote|People like you always mistake compassion for weakness. [[Knight in Shining Armor|Michael and Sanya]] aren't weak. Fortunately for you, they are good men. [[Shut UP, Hannibal|Unfortunately for you]], ''[[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|I'm not.]]''|'''[[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]]''', ''Death Masks'' }}
{{quote|Get lost. I'm not a babysitter.|'''Sol Badguy''''s win quote against '''Bridget''', ''[[Guilty Gear]]''}}
|'''[[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]]''', ''Death Masks'' }}
 
{{quote|Get lost. I'm not a babysitter.
{{quote|You're really not my type, man. Sorry, but I'm gonna have to pass.|'''Ragna the Bloodedge''''s win quote against '''Iron Tager''', ''[[Blaz Blue]]: Calamity Trigger''}}
{{quote|Get lost. I'm not a babysitter.|'''Sol Badguy''''s win quote against '''Bridget''', ''[[Guilty Gear]]''}}
 
{{quote|You're really not my type, man. Sorry, but I'm gonna have to pass.
{{quote|It's alright, I can handle this myself. You're just gonna take pictures again, aren't you...|'''[[Miko|Reimu Hakurei]]''' to '''Aya Shameimaru''', ''Touhou Musoukakyou: A Summer Day's Dream''}}
{{quote|You're really not my type, man. Sorry, but I'm gonna have to pass.|'''Ragna the Bloodedge''''s win quote against '''Iron Tager''', ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]: Calamity Trigger''}}
 
{{quote|It's alright, I can handle this myself. You're just gonna take pictures again, aren't you...
{{quote|Freudia, do not stand in my way.|'''Grolla Seyfarth''' to '''Freudia Neuwahl''', ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]''}}
{{quote|It's alright, I can handle this myself. You're just gonna take pictures again, aren't you...|'''[[Miko|Reimu Hakurei]]''' to '''Aya Shameimaru''', ''Touhou Musoukakyou: A Summer Day's Dream''}}
 
{{quote|Freudia, do not stand in my way.
{{quote|[[Catch Phrase|Kagome!]] [[Inuyasha]] [[Would Hurt a Child|hit me!]]|'''Shippo,''' [[Inuyasha (Manga)|Inuyasha]]}}
{{quote|Freudia, do not stand in my way.|'''Grolla Seyfarth''' to '''Freudia Neuwahl''', ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]''}}
 
{{quote|[[Catch Phrase|WaaaaahKagome!]] [[Jerkass Woobie|KyoInuyasha]] [[KickWould theHurt Doga Child|hit me!]]|'''Momiji Sohma,''' [[Fruits Basket]]}}
|'''Shippo,''' [[Inuyasha]]}}
 
{{quote|[[Catch Phrase|Waaaaah!]] [[Jerkass Woobie|Kyo]] [[Kick the Dog|hit me!]]
{{quote|We're the Light Ones, not the Saint ones.|'''Anton,(As he's considering burning down a cafe, where the owner'd tried to poison him)''' [[Night Watch (Literature)|Night Watch]]}}
|'''Momiji Sohma''', ''[[Fruits Basket]]''}}
 
{{quote|We're the Light Ones, not the Saint ones.
{{quote|Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.|'''[[Theodore Roosevelt]]'''}}
{{quote|We're the Light Ones, not the Saint ones.|''Anton''Anton,(As he's (considering burning down a cafe, where the owner'd tried to poison him), ''' [[Night Watch (Literaturenovel)|Night Watch]]'' }}
 
{{quote|Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.|'''[[Theodore Roosevelt]]'''}}
{{quote|I may be on the side of the angels... But don't think for ''one second'' that I ''am'' one of them.|'''Sherlock Holmes''', [[Sherlock]], ''[[Sherlock (TV)/Recap/S02 E03 The Reichenbach Fall|The Reichenbach Fall]]''}}
|'''[[Theodore Roosevelt]]'''}}
 
{{quote|I may be on the side of the angels... But don't think for ''one second'' that I ''am'' one of them.
{{quote|I don't have time to justify myself to your viewers. I have a galaxy to save.|'''[[Player Character|Commander Shepard]]''', ''[[Mass Effect 1 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 1]]''}}
{{quote|I may be on the side of the angels... But don't think for ''one second'' that I ''am'' one of them.|'''Sherlock Holmes''', [[Sherlock]], ''[[Sherlock (TV)/Recap/S02 /E03 The Reichenbach Fall|The Reichenbach Fall]]''}}
 
{{quote|The terrible thing is that a perfectly good God is in this matter hardly less formidable than a Cosmic Sadist. The more we believe that God hurts only to heal, the less we can believe that there is any use in begging for tenderness. A cruel man might be bribed — might grow tired of his vile sport — might have a temporary fit of mercy, as alcoholics have fits of sobriety. But, suppose that what you are up against is a surgeon whose intentions are wholly good.; The kinder and more conscientious he is, the more inexorably he will go on cutting. If he yielded to your entreaties, if he stopped before the operation was complete, all the pain up to that point would have been useless. But is it credible that such extremities of torture would be necessary for us? Well, take your choice. The tortures occur. If they are unnecessary, then there is no God or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary. For no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict or permit them if they weren’t.
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Either way, we’re for it.
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What do people mean when they say, “I am not afraid of God because I know He is good”? Have they never been to a dentist?
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|'''[[C. S. Lewis]]''', ''A Grief Observed''}}
 
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