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"Because I am a wolf in a world of sheep. Because terror is the blood of life and its guiding principle. I have no politics to espouse through my terror, no ideals to force through. Terror is its own reward."
Kaizen Gamorra from The Authority explaining why he engages in terrorism

"I've come here to create a new country for you called Chaos and a new government called Anarchy. All for you."
Gaerity, Blown Away

Strannix: You fix that bow plane and I'll make you an Admiral.
Commander Krill: Consider it done. Where are you going?
Strannix: Make Honolulu glow in the dark.
Krill: Outstanding.

Hale: So that's what this is about, huh? The money?
Deakins: Yeah.
Hale: Bullshit.
Deakins: Well, you tell me why. Go ahead, tell me why.
Hale: Because you've been passed over for promotion so many times, you want to show the bastards you're right. Maybe it's because everyone's cashing out, so why the Hell not you? Maybe your mother dropped you on your head when you a baby. Who the Hell cares, Deke? I mean, there's no difference between you and a guy who shoots up a schoolyard; you've both got a head full of bad wiring.

"To put it in the simplest possible terms, our 'purpose' is a total absence of purpose! You should be aware, fraulein, that there are some people in this world, some irredeemable louts, for whom the means do not require an end! I speak, of course, of myself."
The Major, Hellsing Ultimate

Alfred, The Dark Knight

"I don't know if you're communists, fascists, anarchists, or just garden-variety nutjobs."
The Red Panda, The Red Panda Adventures

"What is Cobra? What nationality are its leaders, other than Scottish? What will it gain by destroying world capitals? Readers, I do not know."

"I opened the book of mankind's history. People have always fought and killed, many times without real reason. Violence is the way of the world. I am simply playing along."
Giacomo Dante, Gunslinger Girl

"My job? Yes, it's finally clear to me now. My job is to be an Enemy of the State."
Masahiro Takenaka, Black Lagoon

"At the signing ceremony of the UN's world security treaty in the year 2003, terrorists who called themselves "Smiling Faces" attacked the ceremony. The devastating attack caught the International Society by surprise and temporarily crippled key operations in the UN. That assault was aimed at nothing more than using terrorism to create terror."

"Terrorists have causes. They claim responsibility. Al-Qaeda wanted the world to know exactly what kind of assholes they were. This guy? Not a peep. All terror without the -ist. You know what they call that? Nutjob."
Foggy Nelson, Daredevil (2015)



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