Game of Thrones, Season 5

Hizdahr zo Loraq:
[about the fighting pits] You don't approve?

Tyrion Lannister:
There's always been more than enough death in the world for my taste. I can do without it in my leisure time.

Hizdahr zo Loraq:
Fair enough. Yet it's an unpleasant question, but what great thing has ever been accomplished without killing or cruelty?

Tyrion Lannister:
It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.

Hizdahr zo Loraq:
I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking about the necessary conditions for greatness.

Daenerys Targaryen:
[gesturing to a slain fighter] That is greatness?

Hizdahr zo Loraq:
That is a vital part of the great city of Meereen, which existed long before you or I and will remain standing long after we have returned to the dirt.

Tyrion Lannister:
My father would have liked you.

Daenerys Targaryen:
One day your great city will return to the dirt as well.

Hizdahr zo Loraq:
At your command?

Daenerys Targaryen:
If need be.

Hizdahr zo Loraq:
And how many people will die to make this happen?

Daenerys Targaryen:
If it comes to that, they will have died for a good reason.

Hizdahr zo Loraq:
[indicates the fighters in the pit] Those men think they're dying for a good reason.

Daenerys Targaryen:
Someone else's reason.

Hizdahr zo Loraq:
So your reasons are true and theirs are false? They don't know their own minds but you do?

Tyrion Lannister:
Well said. You're an eloquent man. Doesn't mean you're wrong. In my experience, eloquent men are right every bit as often as imbeciles.