History Quotes / SunkCostFallacy

'''PlayerCharacter:''' (''while playing a slot machine for the ninth time'') The sunk-cost fallacy? The phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial? Of course I've heard of it, why do you ask?\\

-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' Prequel Book, ''Start of Darkness''

->''One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.''
-->-- '''Carl Sagan''', ''The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark''

-->-- '''Creator/CarlSagan''' ''The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark''

->''""One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."''
-->-- '''Creator/CarlSagan'', ''The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark''

->'''Princess Carolyn:''' I have loved you for twenty-five years, and I have never loved anyone better. That kind of love, you only get it when you're young and stupid. I'm not gonna get it again. And when I tell my daughter the story of the great love of my life, I want it to have a happy ending.
->'''[=BoJack=]:''' Is it possible that you letting me go is the happy ending?
->'''Princess Carolyn:''' I've gone with you this far. In for a penny, in for a pound, right? Sunk cost and all that?

'''PlayerCharacter:''' The sunk-cost fallacy? The phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial? Of course I've heard of it, why do you ask?\\

-->-- '''Redcloak''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

'''Tycho''': I have. It means you have to maintain harmful behaviors in perpetuity because you made a bad decision a long time ago, and now you deserve to be punished.\\

-->--'''Ulfric Stormcloak''', ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

-->-- Anime/CodeGeass, Lelouch

-->-- Ulfric Stormcloak, ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

->''"I'm well aware that there's a high chance that what we're doing may result in doomsday for us all. But I pushed my chips into the middle of the table long ago, so I might as well play my hand to the end."''
-->-- '''Redcloak''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

-->-- Anime/CodeGeass, Lelouch

-->--'''Blaine O'Malley''', ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''

'''Right-Eye''': Wait... that's it, isn't it? It's all about whose fault it is... If I kill Xykon now, then it was all a waste. You ordered goblins to their deaths believing in the Plan--so if we abandon it now, then yo were wrong. You let them die for nothing. You're willing to throw good lives after bad so that you don't have to admit that we were wrong to work with Xykon in the first place, much less help him cheat death.

-->-- '''Redcloak''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

-->-- '''Redcloak''', ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick''

-->-- '''Turkish proverb'''