Vigilante Quotes:

The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Exciting, Vigilante, Consumers

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Powerful, Government, Pockets, Vigilante

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

- Liam Neeson

topic: Men, Batman Movie, Batman Dark Knight, Dark Night, Vigilante

This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.

- Paul Watson

topic: Jesus, Book, Media, Vigilante

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

- Carlos Castaneda

source: Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hands, Understanding, Guardian, Vigilante

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne.

- Henri

topic: Men, Legends, Wayne, Batman Movie, Dark Night

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

- Donna Leon

topic: Ideas, Justice, Doe, Vigilante

I'm the out-of-court jester who won't settle, I up the vigilante, I'm a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?

- Bob Black

source: "I've Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger!". Essay by Bob Black, 1986.

topic: Law, Sides, Want, Jester, Court Jester

I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law.

- Lorenzo di Bonaventura

source: "Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura Talks the Challenge of Rebooting the Franchise, Casting Chris Pine, and More on the Set of JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 6, 2014.

topic: Hero, Believe, Character, Vigilante, Breaking The Law

I look at myself as the 'Batman' of track -- a vigilante. You may not like me, but I'm needed.

- Justin Gatlin

topic: Track, Looks, May, Vigilante

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

- Allan Nairn

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: Gun, Men, Fire, Vigilante

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Bollywood, Underestimate, Consumerism, Vigilante, Blank Stares

No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.

- John L. Lewis

source: 1937 Address, 3 Sep. Recalled on his death 11 Jun 1969.

topic: Play, Political, Tin, Vigilante, Babbling

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.

- Yahtzee Croshaw

source: Croshaw's website "Fully Ramblomatic", www.fullyramblomatic.com. July 3, 2003.

topic: Self, World, Kind, Vigilante

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.

- Miranda July

topic: Jobs, Writing, Character, Complex Characters, Vigilante

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.115, Penguin

topic: Team, Grace, Roaring, Duos, Vigilante

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

- Vin Diesel

topic: Revenge, Dirty, Loss, Diesel, Exacting Revenge

[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Real, People, Trying, Blight, Vigilante

As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

- David Ogilvy

topic: Passion, Dark, Men, Madison, Madison Avenue

I remember I had scenes with Melinda McGraw in "Ides Of March" that I didn't have in "Video Vigilante," but I can't quite picture that other character. But it was Vancouver, and that year was crazy

- Eric McCormack

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Crazy, Character, Years, Ides Of March, Vigilante

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

- Doris Lessing

source: "The Sunday Times", May 10, 1992.

topic: Party, Views, Self, Political Correctness, Continuum

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?

- Antoine Fuqua

source: "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks the Equalizer, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes From the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

topic: Vigilante

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

- Oliver Stone

source: "Hungover with Seth MacFarlane". Interview with Stacey Grenrock Woods, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2009.

topic: Differences, People, Littles, Non Conformist, Drum Beats

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

- David Denby

source: "The Equalizer" by David Denby, www.newyorker.com.

topic: Reality, Anchors, Directors, Vigilante, Small Details

Do you go see her?" "No," I said, refusing to acknowledge that I'd just seen Lissa last night. "That's not my life anymore." "Right. Your life is all about dangerous vigilante missions." "You wouldn't understand anything that isn't drinking, smoking, or womanizing." He shook his head. "You're the only one I want, Rose." "Well, you can keep feeling that way, but you're going to have to keep waiting." "Much longer?" He asked me. "I don't know." Hope blossomed on Adrian's face. "That's the most optimistic thing you've told me so far.

- Richelle Mead

topic: Drinking, Optimistic, Night, Vigilante