History Quotes / SelfFulfillingProphecy

->''"[[SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate There is no grand design. No script. Only the choices you make.]] That your choices are so ''predictable'' merely makes us ''seem'' prescient."''
-->--'''Urð''', ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok''

->''"The machine predicts a war - and we go to war to avert it. It predicts a plague - we herd all the sick together, create a plague. Whatever future this predicts,'' we ''make happen. We give over control of our lives completely."''
-->-- '''Michael Jennings''', ''Film/{{Paycheck}}''

-->-- '''Master Oogway''', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' (taken from a Chinese proverb)

->''"The young lord set out to change his fate. But [[MoralEventHorizon what he did next]]...[[GenocideBackfire only sealed it.]]"''

->''We made use of hatred. We let it grow. We believed it would save us... We took every problem caused by our shortcomings and spat them all out onto an "island of devils." And the result... was the birth of that [[Characters/AttackOnTitanErenYeager monster]]... who has now come to repay us for all of the hate we've ever shown... If it's possible... for us to ever have a future again. I will never make the same mistakes... I swear it. If we ever see... another tomorrow...''
-->-- '''Muller''', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''

->'''Death''': There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the market-place and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
-->-- '''Sheppey''', ''Somerset Maugham''

->''[[AC: "I was expecting to meet you in Pseudopolis."]]''
-->-- ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

->''"My own belief is that Russian and Chinese behaviour is as much influenced by suspicion of our intentions as ours is by suspicion of theirs. This would mean that we have great influence over their behaviour - that, by treating them as hostile, we assure their hostility."''
-->-- '''J. William Fulbright'''

->''"It's not the crime that kills you, [[RevealingCoverup it's the cover-up]]."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/RichardNixon'''

->''"Prophecy and prescience — How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the "wave form" (as Muad'Dib referred to his vision-image) and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife?''"
-->-- '''Princess Irulan''', ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', "Private Reflections on Muad'Dib"

->"Their love for their country will destroy them."[[note]] Each of the opposing party is convinced the other is going to destroy them, hence the war[[/note]]
-->--'''Crocodile''', ''Manga/OnePiece''

->''"Some [visions] never come to be, unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them."''
-->-- '''Galadriel''', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''

->''"Columbia starts off perfectly fine, resembling an idyllic, cartoonishly racist Disneyland, until Father Comstock, city leader and alleged prophet, marks out [=DeWitt=] as the guy who's destined to fuck everyone up, so he's forced to fuck everyone up after they all turn on him for being the guy who was going to fuck everyone up."''
-->-- '''[[{{WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation}} Yahtzee]]''', ''Videogame/BioshockInfinite'' review

->''"If I am granted a vision of the future, I will not try to prevent anything that I see. It never works."''
-->-- [[http://www.geocities.ws/evilsnack/hero.html "The Things I Will Do if I Am Ever the Hero" list]]

->''"The fear of not being able to buy guns has led to buying so many guns that now we can't buy any guns just like we feared."''
-->-- '''[[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert]]'''

->"21st-century readers are no doubt aware that this "self-fulfilling prophesy" approach has been done quite literally to death over the course of 2500 years. All that remains to be innovated there is "how to trick the protagonist into creating the future he seeks to prevent, while preventing the reader from seeing this as a rehash of ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''." Have you ever read one of these stories, or seen one of these films, and wanted to poke your eyes out? Now you know why. "
-->-- '''Howard Taylor''' discussing the trope, in the [[TheRant author's notes]] for the ''WebComic/SchlockMercenary'' strip for [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-04-10 4 Oct 2005]]

->''"Watch your thoughts; for they become words. Watch your words; for they become actions. Watch your actions; for they become habits. Watch your habits; for they become character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny."''
-->-- '''Frank Outlaw'''

->''Assuming that destiny and fate are a legitimate force in the universe, then that means that TheChosenOne is destined to eventually triumph over the dark lord or ancient evil. So the forces of evil will send their best troops to destroy the Chosen One before they even begin their quest. However, the Chosen One would have never started their quest in the first place if the forces of evil hadn't attacked their home, forcing them to begin their hero's journey. Wouldn't that mean that the only way for the dark lord to avoid defeat would be to ignore the machinations of destiny and gamble that he was living in a free will based universe? Wouldn't knowingly engaging with the prophecy only validate it?"
-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', [[https://youtu.be/LuTQ0EpmnJo CHOSEN ONES]]

-->--'''Luke Skywalker''', ''[[Film/TheLastJedi Star Wars: The Last Jedi]]''

-->--'''David Nix''', ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}''

->'''Bill:''' What has gotten into you, son?!\\
'''Gramma:''' You just couldn't handle sharing the spotlight with your sister, couldja?!\\
'''Cricket:''' What?! This isn't about Tilly! It's about the '''[[DemonicDummy evil puppet!!]]'''\\
'''Tilly:''' "Evil puppet"? Cricket, do you not like Henry?\\
'''Cricket:''' Of course I don't! He's horrifying! [[CannotSpitItOut I didn't say anything 'cause I didn't wanna ruin your fun]], and well... I guess I went ahead and did that anyway, huh?\\
'''Tilly:''' Yup. You did...
-->--''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens''

->''"Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and [[ThoughtAversionFailure you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute]]."''
-->-- '''Creator/FyodorDostoevsky''', ''Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863)''

->''"Telling someone about a prophecy, nine times out of ten? Makes it happen."''
-->--'''Veracity''', ''Literature/StellarRangerDarkStar''

-->--'''Michael Jennings''', ''Film/{{Paycheck}}''

-->--'''Michaael Jennings''', ''FIlm/{{Paycheck}}''

->"Their love for their country will destroy them.[[note]] Each of the opposing party is convinced the other is going to destroy them, hence the war[[/note]]"

->''"Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute."''

-->--''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens}''