Luke

“Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!”
― Donquixote Doflamingo

“No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ."
"And?"
"No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Ultimately, however, what happened to Humanity does not matter. Like every
other story, it was a temporary one; indeed long but ultimately ephemeral. It did not
have a coherent ending, but then again it did not need to. The tale of Humanity was never
its ultimate domination of a thousand galaxies, or its mysterious exit into the unknown.

The essence of being human was none of that. Instead, it lay in the radio conversations
of the still-human Machines, in the daily lives of the bizarrely twisted Bug Facers, in the
endless love-songs of the carefree Hedonists, the rebellious demonstrations of the first
true Martians, and in a way, the very life you lead at the moment.

Many throughout history were unaware of this most basic fact. The Qu, in dreams
of an ideal future, distorted the worlds it came across. Later on the Gravital, with their
insane desire to recreate the past, created the biggest massacres in the history of the
galaxy. Even now, it is sickeningly easy for beings to get lost in false grand narratives,
living out completely driven lives in pursuit of non-existent ultimates, ideals, climaxes
and golden ages. In blindly thinking that their stories serve absolute ends, such
creatures almost always end up harming themselves, if not those around them.

To those like them; look at the story of Man, and come to your senses! It is not the
destination, but the trip that matters, and what you do today influences tomorrow, not
the other way around. Love Today, and seize All Tomorrows!”
― Nemo Ramjet, All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man