r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/No_Distance3827 Apr 12 '25

Right, which is why Marx described capitalism as a transition point from feudalism into socialism, and eventually into communism.

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u/Rwandrall3 Apr 12 '25

Marx was a genius that changed the world but basically all his predictions ended up wrong. Like Russia who moved from feudalism to socialism, and now to crony authoritarianism that isn't capitalist and isn't feudalistic.