Rooting for the Empire/Quotes

""Don't you just love it when the bad guys win?""

- Scratch, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

"Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."

- William Blake, on Paradise Lost

"Who roots for the cops in a heist movie, anyway?"

- Feng Shui: Friends of the Dragon

""So what? Audiences always think the villain is cooler than the hero is, anyway.""

- Tarquin, The Order of the Stick

"Till the age of about fourteen I believed in God, and believed that the accounts given of him were true. But I was well aware that I did not love him. On the contrary, I hated him, just as I hated Jesus and the Hebrew patriarchs. If I had any sympathetic feelings towards any character in the Old Testament, it was towards such people as Cain, Jezebel, Haman, Agag, Sisera: in the New Testament my friends, if any, were Ananias, Caiaphas, Judas and Pontius Pilate."

- George Orwell, "Such, Such Were the Joys"

""Are zombies the protagonists of The Walking Dead? Because they're the ones I'm rooting for. They're the only ones who have a clear motivation, i.e. brains, and behave in such a way as to bring those desires to fruition. They're clearly the best written.""

- Tycho, Penny Arcade, March 2, 2012

""Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies""

- Henry Hill, Goodfellas