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CANON
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
-Code of the Sith
He's very aloof, very self-contained, obviously completely fearless. He is extremely intelligent, perhaps more so than almost anyone else. He's obviously a man of immense power. I don't suppose that the question of moral values enter into his head. He's not immoral -- he's amoral. Morality is a word that doesn't figure in his vocabulary at all. It's power. Which is something that exists very much in our world today.
-Sir Christopher Lee on Dooku
What not many people realize is that Dooku is apparently Japanese for ‘poison.’ Very appropriate, really, because he’s lethal.
-Ditto
Why not do it the easy way, Master?
Because it is easy.
-Master Yoda and Padawan Dooku
Is the Dark Side stronger?
No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
-Luke Skywalker and Master Yoda
Yoda: Powerful you have become, Dooku. The Dark Side I sense in you.
Count Dooku: I have become more powerful than any Jedi. Even you.
Yoda: Much to learn, you still have.
-Master Yoda and (former) Padawan Dooku
The best of all would be the strongest student, yes? Wisest? Most learned in the ways of the Force? Best of all, Dooku would be! Our greatest student! Our greatest failure.
-Yoda
I've seen your heart, and I know how empty it is. I've seen your anger, and I know how deep it is. I've seen your ambition, and I know how ruthless it is. And all of that will ultimately destroy you.
-Lorian Nod to Dooku
He is a fencer. Leverage, position, advantage—they are as natural to him as breathing.
-Qui-Gon Jinn on Dooku
It is not our way. The Counts of Serenno do not complain or cry. We are born to take care of others. We don't expect others to take care of us.
-Count Dooku
Live alongside corruption for too long, and you no longer notice the stench.
-Count Dooku
There is a fine line between neutral and amoral. In fact, there may be no line there at all.
-Count Dooku
I am being honest when I tell you that the Republic needs to be torn down and built up again from the ground up.
-Jedi Master Dooku
Even though I knew that the Senate was corrupt, the Council was fallible, and Jedi training methods far from perfect, I remained with the Jedi Order for twelve years after Galidraan. Why? Because I still believed that I could accomplish some good as a Jedi. I thought I could bring about some positive changes, right certain wrongs, and do better than maintain the status quo. In short, I was an utter fool.
-Count Dooku
One man should be able to make a difference if he is powerful enough.
-Jedi Master Dooku
Anger leads to hate and hate leads to power.
-Count Dooku
The Republic cannot be fixed, m'lady. It is time to start over.
-Count Dooku to Senator Amidala
You know, m'lady, that Count Dooku was once a Jedi. He couldn't assassinate anyone. It's not in his character.
-Mace Windu, old friend
Count Dooku: Master Windu, you have fought gallantly. Worthy of recognition in the archives of the Jedi Order. Now... it is finished. Surrender, and your lives will be spared.
Mace Windu: We will not be hostages to be bartered, Dooku!
Count Dooku: Then... I'm sorry, old friend.
-Count Dooku, ordering Mace Windu's death
Joined the Dark Side, Dooku has. Lies, deceit, creating mistrust are his ways now.
-Yoda
Twisted my mind?! He opened it! After defeating me on Bakura, Dooku tended to my wounds and reasoned with me! He showed me the anger at the core of my being — and made me acknowledge its power!
―Sora Bulq
What do you want? Tell me what you want and I will show you how the dark side can help you achieve it. Do you want friends? The dark side can compel them for you. Lovers? The dark side understands passion in a way you never have. Do you want riches—endless life—deep wisdom...?
-Count Dooku
The war progresses well. I have dealt out your deaths, your schemes, your betrayals. I have paid for your war with my riches, my time, my friends, and my honor.
-Count Dooku to Lord Sidious
The Sith control everything. You just don't know it.
-Count Dooku
More Dooku quotes from canon
NON-CANON
The Master said, 'Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with virtue.'
-Confucius
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
-Winston Churchill
I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
-Macbeth
Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say— 'Let us do evil that good may result?' Their condemnation is just!
-Romans 3:8
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
-Dostoyevsky
With us everyone will be happy, and they will no longer rebel or destroy each other, as in your freedom, everywhere. Oh, we shall convince them that they will only become free when they resign their freedom to us, and submit to us. Will we be right, do you think, or will we be lying? They themselves will be convinced that we are right, for they will remember to what horrors of slavery and confusion your freedom led them.
-The Grand Inquisitor, The Brothers Karamazov
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
-Milton
Political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
-Mao
If one believes one's right, one shouldn't wait to convince millions of fools, one might just as well force them.
-Ayn Rand
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
-Cicero
There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition; no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot; no fault greater than the wish to be getting. Therefore the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.
-Laozi
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen.
-Abraham Lincoln
Life is essentially a chess game.
You have to plan and calculate and
I am so lonely.
-A Softer World
Citizens should not fear their government. This will be enforced.
-A Softer World
Superior ability breeds superior ambition.
-Spock
There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.
— Professor Quirrell
A victor must speak not of the current state of the world, but of how it should rightfully be!
-Sosuke Aizen
You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.
-Jadis, the White Witch
He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, except as far as they serve him for the moment. And now it is clear that he is a black traitor.
-Treebeard
As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.
-Colonel Kurtz
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
-Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.
-Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
Gittes: How much are you worth?
Cross: I've no idea. How much do you want?
Gittes: I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
Cross: Oh my, yes!
Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
Cross: The future, Mr. Gittes - the future!
-Chinatown
Littlefinger: So many men, they risk so little, they spend their lives avoiding danger and they die. I'd risk everything to get what I want.
Sansa: And what do you want?
Littlefinger: Everything.
-Game of Thrones
Daggett: You're pure evil.
Bane: I'm necessary evil.
-The Dark Knight Rises
Justice Lord Batman: Think about it. A world where there's no crime, no victims, no pain.
Batman: And no choice. Who elected you, anyway?
Justice Lord Batman: Who elected you? The problem with democracy is it doesn't keep you very safe.
Batman: It has other virtues, but you seem to have forgotten them.
Justice Lord Batman: I didn't forget. I just chose peace and security instead.
-Justice League, "A Better World"
Democracy? Democracy. Democracy is not what these people need, hell, it's not even what they want... People don't want freedom. They want boundaries and rules… Protection… From invaders, and from themselves. People need a leader who can give them both the support and constraints to keep chaos at bay. You give them that, and they'll follow.
And that's where I come in.
-Jonathan Irons
(Real-Life Politics) - The West Has it Totally Wrong on Lee Kuan Yew
When Terrorists and Criminals Govern Better Than Governments
RP-SPECIFIC
Count Dooku summons Qui-Gon's spirit (meme)
Forming the Constellation (Raina)
Forming the Constellation (Pinkman)
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
-Code of the Sith
He's very aloof, very self-contained, obviously completely fearless. He is extremely intelligent, perhaps more so than almost anyone else. He's obviously a man of immense power. I don't suppose that the question of moral values enter into his head. He's not immoral -- he's amoral. Morality is a word that doesn't figure in his vocabulary at all. It's power. Which is something that exists very much in our world today.
-Sir Christopher Lee on Dooku
What not many people realize is that Dooku is apparently Japanese for ‘poison.’ Very appropriate, really, because he’s lethal.
-Ditto
Why not do it the easy way, Master?
Because it is easy.
-Master Yoda and Padawan Dooku
Is the Dark Side stronger?
No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
-Luke Skywalker and Master Yoda
Yoda: Powerful you have become, Dooku. The Dark Side I sense in you.
Count Dooku: I have become more powerful than any Jedi. Even you.
Yoda: Much to learn, you still have.
-Master Yoda and (former) Padawan Dooku
The best of all would be the strongest student, yes? Wisest? Most learned in the ways of the Force? Best of all, Dooku would be! Our greatest student! Our greatest failure.
-Yoda
I've seen your heart, and I know how empty it is. I've seen your anger, and I know how deep it is. I've seen your ambition, and I know how ruthless it is. And all of that will ultimately destroy you.
-Lorian Nod to Dooku
He is a fencer. Leverage, position, advantage—they are as natural to him as breathing.
-Qui-Gon Jinn on Dooku
It is not our way. The Counts of Serenno do not complain or cry. We are born to take care of others. We don't expect others to take care of us.
-Count Dooku
Live alongside corruption for too long, and you no longer notice the stench.
-Count Dooku
There is a fine line between neutral and amoral. In fact, there may be no line there at all.
-Count Dooku
I am being honest when I tell you that the Republic needs to be torn down and built up again from the ground up.
-Jedi Master Dooku
Even though I knew that the Senate was corrupt, the Council was fallible, and Jedi training methods far from perfect, I remained with the Jedi Order for twelve years after Galidraan. Why? Because I still believed that I could accomplish some good as a Jedi. I thought I could bring about some positive changes, right certain wrongs, and do better than maintain the status quo. In short, I was an utter fool.
-Count Dooku
One man should be able to make a difference if he is powerful enough.
-Jedi Master Dooku
Anger leads to hate and hate leads to power.
-Count Dooku
The Republic cannot be fixed, m'lady. It is time to start over.
-Count Dooku to Senator Amidala
You know, m'lady, that Count Dooku was once a Jedi. He couldn't assassinate anyone. It's not in his character.
-Mace Windu, old friend
Count Dooku: Master Windu, you have fought gallantly. Worthy of recognition in the archives of the Jedi Order. Now... it is finished. Surrender, and your lives will be spared.
Mace Windu: We will not be hostages to be bartered, Dooku!
Count Dooku: Then... I'm sorry, old friend.
-Count Dooku, ordering Mace Windu's death
Joined the Dark Side, Dooku has. Lies, deceit, creating mistrust are his ways now.
-Yoda
Twisted my mind?! He opened it! After defeating me on Bakura, Dooku tended to my wounds and reasoned with me! He showed me the anger at the core of my being — and made me acknowledge its power!
―Sora Bulq
What do you want? Tell me what you want and I will show you how the dark side can help you achieve it. Do you want friends? The dark side can compel them for you. Lovers? The dark side understands passion in a way you never have. Do you want riches—endless life—deep wisdom...?
-Count Dooku
The war progresses well. I have dealt out your deaths, your schemes, your betrayals. I have paid for your war with my riches, my time, my friends, and my honor.
-Count Dooku to Lord Sidious
The Sith control everything. You just don't know it.
-Count Dooku
More Dooku quotes from canon
NON-CANON
The Master said, 'Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with virtue.'
-Confucius
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
-Winston Churchill
I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
-Macbeth
Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say— 'Let us do evil that good may result?' Their condemnation is just!
-Romans 3:8
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
-Dostoyevsky
With us everyone will be happy, and they will no longer rebel or destroy each other, as in your freedom, everywhere. Oh, we shall convince them that they will only become free when they resign their freedom to us, and submit to us. Will we be right, do you think, or will we be lying? They themselves will be convinced that we are right, for they will remember to what horrors of slavery and confusion your freedom led them.
-The Grand Inquisitor, The Brothers Karamazov
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
-Milton
Political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
-Mao
If one believes one's right, one shouldn't wait to convince millions of fools, one might just as well force them.
-Ayn Rand
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
-Cicero
There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition; no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot; no fault greater than the wish to be getting. Therefore the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.
-Laozi
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen.
-Abraham Lincoln
Life is essentially a chess game.
You have to plan and calculate and
I am so lonely.
-A Softer World
Citizens should not fear their government. This will be enforced.
-A Softer World
Superior ability breeds superior ambition.
-Spock
There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.
— Professor Quirrell
A victor must speak not of the current state of the world, but of how it should rightfully be!
-Sosuke Aizen
You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.
-Jadis, the White Witch
He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, except as far as they serve him for the moment. And now it is clear that he is a black traitor.
-Treebeard
As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.
-Colonel Kurtz
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
-Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.
-Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
Gittes: How much are you worth?
Cross: I've no idea. How much do you want?
Gittes: I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?
Cross: Oh my, yes!
Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?
Cross: The future, Mr. Gittes - the future!
-Chinatown
Littlefinger: So many men, they risk so little, they spend their lives avoiding danger and they die. I'd risk everything to get what I want.
Sansa: And what do you want?
Littlefinger: Everything.
-Game of Thrones
Daggett: You're pure evil.
Bane: I'm necessary evil.
-The Dark Knight Rises
Justice Lord Batman: Think about it. A world where there's no crime, no victims, no pain.
Batman: And no choice. Who elected you, anyway?
Justice Lord Batman: Who elected you? The problem with democracy is it doesn't keep you very safe.
Batman: It has other virtues, but you seem to have forgotten them.
Justice Lord Batman: I didn't forget. I just chose peace and security instead.
-Justice League, "A Better World"
Democracy? Democracy. Democracy is not what these people need, hell, it's not even what they want... People don't want freedom. They want boundaries and rules… Protection… From invaders, and from themselves. People need a leader who can give them both the support and constraints to keep chaos at bay. You give them that, and they'll follow.
And that's where I come in.
-Jonathan Irons
(Real-Life Politics) - The West Has it Totally Wrong on Lee Kuan Yew
When Terrorists and Criminals Govern Better Than Governments
RP-SPECIFIC
Count Dooku summons Qui-Gon's spirit (meme)
Forming the Constellation (Raina)
Forming the Constellation (Pinkman)