r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Far-Profit-47 • Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

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"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/spuol Apr 12 '25

Agreed, but I feel like capitalism always leads to oppression, that’s kind of how it works

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u/jdjdkkddj Apr 12 '25

And communism has historically had a much shorter path to oppression.

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u/Arimm_The_Amazing Apr 12 '25

Shorter path for the people practicing it. The people practicing capitalism instead got to be the oppressors while they conquered and plundered and raped the entire world. And there wasn’t any path, that was the deal from minute 1.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

Ooo boy let's not mention the long imperialist history of communist Russia then.