Utopia Justifies the Means/Quotes
I have an evil plan |
My evil plan to save the world, —Five Iron Frenzy, "My Evil Plan to Save the World"
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Ever since I've become Fuhrer, I've done nothing but improve this country, winning wars, and exponentially expanding our territory... I think of myself as one of God's guardian angels. —King Bradley Pride, Fullmetal Alchemist
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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. |
Mal: I don't murder children. |
Justice Lord Hawkgirl: Remember when everyone liked us? —Justice League - A Better World Part 1
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Justice Lord Batman: Think about it - a world where there's no crimes. No victims. No pain. —Justice League -- "A Better World (Part 2)"
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(Later, as a man who refused to pay a restaurant bill because he didn't like the food is being carted off to jail by jackbooted police) —Justice League -- "A Better World (Part 2)"
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The future doesn't belong to you or me. It belongs to those who come after us. Their hands will be clean of blood; they need not know any sin, if we pay that price for them. To think that a child, like Ashu, might never again know pain! Isn't that a future worth fighting for? —Xan Hei, Guild Wars Beyond: Winds of Change
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. —Russell Baker
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The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell. —Karl Popper, philosopher, just after World War Two
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That is what happens with projects to build model societies in other people's countries. The cleansing campaigns are rarely premeditated. It is only when the people who live on the land refuse to abandon their past that the dream of the clean slate morphs into its doppelgänger, the scorched earth--only then that the dream of total creation morphs into a campaign of total destruction. —Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine
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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. |
Jasmine: I offered paradise! You chose this! |
We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can see. — Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
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