"All you had to say was 'No.'"

From the brilliant V for Vendetta. The comics, not the movie. Though I enjoyed the movie a lot more than a lot of folks, despite the shift in message from anarchy versus fascism to popular revolt versus totalitarianism.

Hell, living the 21st century, I'll take what I can get.

"...In fact, let us not mince words... The Management is terrible! We've had a string of embezzelers, frauds, liars and lunatics making a string of catastrophic decisions. This is plain fact. But who elected them? It was you! You who elected these people! You who gave them the power to make your decisions for you! While I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate. You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life a shambles. You have accepted without question their senseless orders. You have allowed them to fill your workspace with dangerous and unproven machines. You could have stopped them. All you had to say was 'No'....

V, in V for Vendetta."

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