History Quotes / SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers

->''[[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed All of this happened]] because of fanatics and arguments about the next world. It's time we start believing in this one.''
-->-- '''[[PlayerCharacter TheInquisitor]]''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''

->'''Leliana:''' "Butler’s betrayal put our agents in danger. I condemn one man to save dozens. I may not like what I do, but it must be done. I cannot afford the luxury of ideals at a time like this.!"\\

Leliana: “ Butler’s betrayal put our agents in danger. I condemn one man to save dozens. I may not like what I do, but it must be done. I cannot afford the luxury of ideals at a time like this.!”

Herald: “Now is precisely the time for ideals!”
Dragon Age: Inquisition, if you take steps to soften Leliana.

Leliana: “Now is not the time for ideals!”

->There's nothing quite as subversive as the refusal of cynicism. When everyone around you is dressed in black and dripping hostility, what could be more subversive than to dress in bright, bold colours and run headlong with almost suicidally-optimistic abandon? The Ether Folks have this wonderfully skewed vision - one part [[RaygunGothic future]], two parts [[SteamPunk past]] and one part [[CrazyAwesome totally demented]] - that I have no choice but to admire. Anyone who can make a toaster grow wings, fly, and play Beethoven's Fifth is a man or woman worth respecting.

->''"{{Crapsack world}}s and {{anti hero}}es have their place. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Sometimes, they are very necessary]]. But [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy an endless diet of dreary cyberpunk and dark fantasy won't do us any more favors]] than an endless feast of {{glurge}}. I'd argue that the cynical nature of these really hurt our ability to hope and work for better. It gets us to [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror accept the hopelessness and jaded outlook of things as 'That's the way it is. I can't change it]],' and stops us from fighting when [[EarnYourHappyEnding we NEED to fight]]."''

-> '''[[EvilOverlord Asdrubael Vect]]''': NO! NOOOOO! [[StrawNihilist LIFE has no MEANING! Not really]]. [[ImmortalityImmorality Regardless of how long we extend our lifespans]], regardless of our emotions, thoughts and memories, regardless of everything that defines life to us, amalgams of matter who can reflect on it, [[CessationOfExistence the universe itself shall dissipate, and as it does, so shall WE]]. In a million cycles, in a billion cycles, in a [[TimeAbyss duodecillion cycles]], in the dying throes of the galaxy, what will you find?!\\
'''[[LightIsGood The Star Child]]''': [[ShutUpHannibal What? You haven't planned that far ahead yet?]] (chuckle)\\

->''"Humans are monsters and everything is awful" has been done to death and is demonstrably untrue. We have enough angry sixth-grade poetry, guys, we can stop writing "people are all terrible" stories know.''

->''"I have previously stated my attraction to the idea of keeping one’s politics childish... no matter how many jaded adults remind you that nobody ever said life was fair. Because, you see, that’s a lie. They did. They did tell us that life was fair. Repeatedly. They still do. Every day. On TV, in films, in books, in newspapers--they tell us that life is fair over and over again, in happy ending after happy ending, in fictional moral victory upon fictional moral victory, in reassuring news story after reassuring news story, in editorial after thinkpiece after review. It’s only when we express anger at injustice that we are dishonestly told that justice is an unreasonable expectation."''

'''LightIsGood The Star Child''': What? You haven't planned that far ahead yet? (chuckle)\\

-> '''Asdrubael Vect''': Grrggh... (inhale) Mockery... FATHERLY MOCKERY... You Dare?! My fury is... is... RESTRAINED? :DDDD! Urien! Not even existential dread will work!\\
-> '''[[MadDoctor Urien Rakarth]]''': (slight crying) No respect for the art of cynicism.

-> '''Asdrubael Vect''': NO! NOOOOO! [[StrawNihilist LIFE has no MEANING! Not really]]. [[ImmortalityImmorality Regardless of how long we extend our lifespans]], regardless of our emotions, thoughts and memories, regardless of everything that defines life to us, amalgams of matter who can reflect on it, [[CessationOfExistence the universe itself shall dissipate, and as it does, so shall WE]]. In a million cycles, in a billion cycles, in a [[TimeAbyss duodecillion cycles]], in the dying throes of the galaxy, what will you find?!\\
'''The Star Child''': What? You haven't planned that far ahead yet?

'''The Star Child''': What? You haven't planned that far ahead yet?\\

-> '''Asdrubael Vect''': NO! NOOOOO! [[StrawNihilist LIFE has no MEANING! Not really]]. [[ImmortalityImmorality Regardless of how long we extend our lifespans]], regardless of our emotions, thoughts and memories, regardless of everything that defines life to us, amalgams of matter who can reflect on it, [[CessationOfExistence the universe itself shall dissipate, and as it does, so shall WE]]. In a million cycles, in a billion cycles, in a [[TimeAbyss duodecillion cycles]], in the dying throes of the galaxy, what will you find?!\\
'''The Star Child''': What? You haven't planned that far ahead yet?\\
-->--'''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'''

->''"Don't tell me things cannot change."''
-->-- '''Joe Biden'''

-->-- ''[[https://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/186664626898 A poster on Tumblr]].

-->--'''Zorii''', ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''.

->''"This world is full of men and women who have the courage to listen to their hearts...and who believe in doing what's right! I'm not just talking about heroes, Dad. I mean everyday people...like you...and me! The Devils can never win...as long as we have hope! That's why you can't give p! You mustn't surrender to despair...or you'll run the risk of becoming a monster yourself!"''
-->-- '''[[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]''', ComicBook/MaximumCarnage

->''"I choose the discipline of hope over the ease of cynicism.
->I choose fortitude over fatalism.
->I choose to be who my ancestors protected and my creator formed.
->I choose strategy and organizing as the container for my anger.
->I choose to be more than a conqueror."''
-->-- Brittany Packnett'''