Utopia Justifies the Means/Quotes: Difference between revisions

'''Justice Lord Green Lantern:''' You wanna talk about fear? When I was a kid, I went to bed every night scared that the whole world was gonna blow up. That's the way things were back then; folks just accepted it. They didn't think there could be a better way. ''[[Gone Horribly Right|But we found one.]]''|''[[Justice League]] - A Better World Part 1''}}

 

when I figure out the physics. }}

 

I can't believe I made it up myself.|'''[[Five Iron Frenzy]]''', "My Evil Plan to Save the World"}}

 

{{quote|''"There is no shame in this. For a man who has done...fine works. We're building a better world. All of them... Better worlds."''|'''[[Knight Templar|The Operative]]''', as he [[You Have Failed Me|executes]] the head doctor of [[School for Scheming|the Academy]], ''[[Serenity]]''}}

 

'''[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|The Operative]]:''' I'm not going to live there. [[No Place for Me There|There's no place for me there]]...any more than there is for you. [[Dirty Business|Malcolm...I'm a monster. What I do is evil.]] [[Necessarily Evil|I have no illusions about it, but it must be done.]]|''[[Serenity]]''}}

 

The unanticipated violence that now engulfs Iraq is the creation of the lethally optimistic architects of the war--it was preordained in that original seemingly innocuous, even idealistic phrase: "a model for a new Middle East." The disintegration of Iraq has its roots in the ideology that demanded a tabula rasa on which to write its new story. And when no such pristine tableau presented itself, the supporters of that ideology proceeded to blast and surge and blast again in the hope of reaching that promised land."''|'''Naomi Klein''', ''The Shock Doctrine''}}

 

 

 

'''{{spoiler|Ozymandias}}''': To save billions.|''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]''}}

 

{{quote|''"Communism is based on ethical relativism and accepts no stable moral absolutes. Right and wrong are relative to the most expedient methods for dealing with class war. Communism exploits the dreadful philosophy that the end justifies the means. It enunciates movingly the theory of a classless society, but alas! its methods for achieving this noble end are all too often ignoble. Lying, violence, murder, and torture are considered to be justifiable means to achieve the millennial end. Is this an unfair indictment? Listen to the words of Lenin, the real tactician of Communist theory: "We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, lawbreaking, withholding and concealing truth." Modem history has known many tortuous nights and horror-filled days because his followers have taken this statement seriously."'' |[[Civil Rights Movement|Martin Luther King, Jr.]]}}

 

'''Angel:''' Hey, I didn't say we were ''smart'', I said it's our ''right''.|''[[Angel]]''}}