The Unfettered/Quotes

""Elmer's answer made Huey confirm this: That boy in front of him was the kind of human being who would not hesitate to manipulate, decieve, step on, and control other people for the sake of his own goals. In other words, he was 'pure evil' to an absurd degree.""

- Baccano

""And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we.""

- Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now

"The Board of Governors: This seems a steep price for so small a service: to crush a powerless cripple.

Tan'elKoth: Doubly fools. He does have power. One power: the power to devote himself absolutely to a single goal, to be ruthless with himself and all else in its pursuit. It is the only power he needs - because, unlike the great mass of men, he is aware of this power, and he is willing, even happy, to use it."

- Blade of Tyshalle

"Master Payne: For all we know, those are some new form of revenant, and the only thing to do is kill them. Could you burn down people -- women and children -- even if you knew they had become monsters?

Agatha: I ... No ... I don't know.

Master Payne: The Baron can. The Baron has. I respect him for that, but I don't want to be him."

- Girl Genius

"The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape.

And escape will make me God."

- Durandal, Marathon

"Only the insane have the strength to prosper

Only the prosperous can decide who is truly sane"

- thought for the day, Warhammer 40000

"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children, not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the dogs.

It's us. Only us.

The void breathed hard on my heart, turning my illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.

Was Rorschach.

Does that answer your questions, Doctor?"

- Watchmen

"They realized that to be in power, you didn't need guns, or money, or even numbers. You just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn't (...) Soze looks over the faces of his family...and showed these men of will what will really was."

- The Usual Suspects

"Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?

Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so."

- Casablanca

"No endeavor to make life "better" in some way can be entirely free of this sort of person. They're all very useful-- inspiring, even!-- until they go too far. Not that Too Far is ever clearly defined; after all, how far would you go to defend what you truly believe in, and what keeps you from going further?"

- This very wiki, under the Real Life examples of the Knight Templar page

"Nite Owl: No. I just don't buy it. Any of it. You wouldn't kill You couldn't...


 * I could. I did. If you like, I'll tell you how."

- Watchmen

"Klaus Wulfenbach: Oh, no. Not this time. Not without an explanation. I was away for a few years and I come back to a world in ruins. Death, destruction, chaos--the endless fighting--it was like the Heterodyne Boys had never existed. Things were worse than ever. So I stopped it. And I did it my way this time. No more negotiating. No more promises. No more second chances. And I did it alone. Because I had to. And it worked."

- Girl Genius

"Ender: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them... I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don't exist."

- Ender's Game

"Ender Wiggin is no killer. He just wins. Thoroughly."

- Ender's Game

"Let me ask you something: if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

- Anton Chigurh, No Country for Old Men

"I wanted to breathe smoke. I wanted to burn the Louvre. I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world, now. This is my world, my world, and those ancient people are dead."

- The Narrator, Fight Club

"You have to know--not fear, but know--that one day you are going to die. Until then, you are useless. It's only once we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

- Tyler Durden, Fight Club

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

- Robert Heinlein

"The thought ripped into my mind like a supercharged chainsaw, shredding the resentment I'd been nursing. His shadowy friends had made me take some life-or-death risks, sure. But they played for the same stakes, every day. Where would I draw the line if I thought someone was trying to exterminate my whole family? When it comes to fighting off genocide, there's no rules."

- Terminal

"Control the space between each second to compress time, fold the world to erase the story of my life, and rewrite the future without limit...I can bring them back! Do you hear me, Xelor!? I'll surpass you and bring back my family! NOTHING WILL EVER STOP ME!"

- Nox, Wakfu

"Zoran Lazarevic: Are you a student of history, Mr. Drake?

Nathan Drake: I've read a book or two.

Zoran Lazarevic: Genghis Khan. Hitler. Stalin. Pol Pot. They were all great men. But do you know why they prevailed?

Nathan Drake: I'm sure you're gonna tell us.

Zoran Lazarevic: Because they had the will to do what other men would not.

(Shoots The Hostage in the head)

Zoran Lazarevic: Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us! Now, unless you wish to test me still further, you will drop your weapons!"

- Uncharted 2, Among Thieves

"If all the Gods of Olympus would deny me my vengeance, then all the Gods of Olympus must die."

- Kratos, God of War

"Ours is the victory, Nyder. They talk of "democracy", "freedom", "fairness" - those are the creeds of COWARDS! The ones who would listen to a thousand opinions and try to satisfy them all. Achievement comes through absolute power! And power through strength! They have lost."

- Davros, "Genesis of the Daleks", Doctor Who

"He doesn't even blink when he kills people. It means NOTHING to him."

- Adolf Junkers about Johan Liebert, Monster

"A threat this big, rules go out the window."

- Commander Shepard (Renegade), Mass Effect 2

"You think I've crossed a line. There is no line. For the safety of this planet, there is no one I will not sacrifice, no monster I will not call friend, no enemy I will not sleep with."

- Special Agent Abigail Brand, X-Men

"Even if I am to carry ‘all the evils of this world’ – it won’t matter. If that can save the world, then I’d gladly accept it."

- Emiya Kiritsugu, Fate/Zero

"''Well. Here we are at last. You and me, Sherlock, and our problem. The final problem."

- Jim Moriarty, Sherlock