Ubermensch/Quotes

For Friedrich Nietzsche's quotes, see: Thus Spoke Zarathustra and its collection of quotations.

Anime and Manga

But it's after you Take Over the World that things get difficult. What kind of world would you build?

—Johan Liebert, Monster

"Artella, we're no longer human in the true sense. We're a different species, and that's fine. Unlike Jomy I don't think we need to be human... I don't think we even need a form. Artella, don't you feel that you are but one mass of the boundless energy that permeates the universe?"

—Tony, Toward the Terra

Film

"A lot of people with a lot of evidence said that Roosevelt knew Pearl [Harbour] was going to be attacked- and that he let it happen. Wasn't proven. Things like that never are. I couldn't stop thinking how horrible that would be, and how Pearl was what got us off our duffs in time to stop the Axis. But a lot of innocent men died. But we won the war. It bounced back and forth in my head until I realised I couldn't judge it. It was too big. He was too big."

—Commissioner Gordon, The Dark Knight Returns

Literature

"To be able to fall down in such a way that in the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime in the pedestrian – that only the knight of faith can do – this is the one and only prodigy."

—Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

The Draka will conquer the world for two reasons; because we must and because we can. And yet of the two forces the second is the greater; we do this because we choose to do it. By the sovereign Will and force of arms the Draka will rule the Earth, and in so doing remake themselves. We shall conquer and beat the Nations of the Earth into the dust and reforge them in our self wrought Image; the Final Society; a new humanity without weakness or mercy, hard and pure. Our descendants will walk the hillside of that future, innocent beneath the stars, with no more between them and their naked will than a wolf has. THEN there will be Gods in the Earth.

—The Draka

"He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. There is no measuring Muad'dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember we speak now of the Muad'dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, and the Muad'dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough."

—Princess Irulan, Dune

Video Games

"You would compare me to that gibbering nihilist? No, I have a goal: to escape the ultimate end... and build the future anew."

—Emperor Mateus Palamecia referring to Kefka, Dissidia Final Fantasy

"What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks, 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says, 'What will the neighbors think?' A man invents, a parasite says, 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God...'"

—Andrew Ryan, BioShock (series)

"No Gods, Or Kings. Only Man."

—Andrew Ryan, BioShock (series)

"I am ze Ubermensch!"

—The Medic, Team Fortress 2

Web Comics

Molly: "Why would I wanna take over the world? That's like... megalomania and avarice and stuff and junk!"
Galatea: "'Why?' Because it is our destiny! We are a new race, more intelligent than man and obliged to supplant him! We... are the übermensch!!!... Or... is it übermenschen? Or überfrauen? Or..."
Molly: "Nah! It's gender-neutral and non-pluralizing. So you were right."

Galates: "Then we ARE the übermensch!!!"

—The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob

Western Animation

Hudson: Growing old terrifies you, doesn't it?

Xanatos: Nothing terrifies me - because nothing is beyond my ability to change.

—Gargoyles

Real Life

"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth."

—Mahatma Gandhi

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