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== Death Note ==▼
▲== ''[[Death Note]]'' ==
{{quote|''"You think.... I'm '''evil?!''' '''I am Justice!''' I protect the innocent and those who fear evil! I'll become the [[A God Am I|God]] of [[Utopia Justifies the Means|the new world]] that everyone desires! All those who oppose that God... '''they are the ones who are truly evil!'''"''|'''[[Death Note|Light Yagami]]''', ''just before killing Lind L. Tailor''}}
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{{quote|''"Evil must be deleted."''|'''Teru Mikami''', ''during his introduction.''}}
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{{quote|''"Perfection through Punishment. "''|'''[[Planescape: Torment|Vhailor]]'''}}
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{{quote|''"Justice is not blind... for I am Her eyes!"''|'''Vhailor'''}}
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{{quote|''"[[Social Darwinist|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."''|'''[[Warhammer
▲{{quote|''"[[Social Darwinist|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."''|'''[[Warhammer 40000|The First Book of Indoctrinations]]'''}}
{{quote|"''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'''}}
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{{quote|''"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'''}}
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{{quote|''"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''', ''[[
{{quote|''"...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]]'''
{{quote|''"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 ''[[
== Other works ==
▲{{quote|"[[Deal with the Devil|Is my soul that low a price]],<br />
The first for all [[Blatant Lies|sane]] humans.
▲Or is vigilantism repulsive?<br />
The
{{quote|''"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}}
▲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|CS Lewis]]''' on Theocracy}}
{{quote|''"What [[Reasonable Authority Figure|PDX]] didn't realize is that to be a good ruler, you have to be ruthless. You simply can't tolerate failure."''|'''[[Karma Meter|Evil]] Trestkon''', ''[[The Nameless Mod]]''}}
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'''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?''
'''[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|The Operative]]:''' ''I'm not going to live there. There's [[No Place for Me There|
|''[[Serenity]]''}}
{{quote|''"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"}}
{{quote|''"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!"''|
{{quote|''"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]]}}
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''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''',{{who|reason=Which one?}} ''God Thinks''}}
{{quote|''"The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess."''|'''Menander'''}}
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{{quote|''"For the Greater Good."''|'''Gellert Grindelwald''', ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''}}
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