Inevitability Quotes

• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Strength

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Strength, Inspiring

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• There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

  Chuck Jones

  Thinking, Long, Willingness

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• Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doubt, Ought, Happens

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Illustrated)”, p.8850, Delphi Classics

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  Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Chaos

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those of contention. The Art of Peace is required, not the Art of War.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, War, Fighting

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Want, Study

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

  Allen Klein

  Gratitude, Demise, Teach

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• You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.

  Jeb Corliss

  Fear, Inevitable, Completeness

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• There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Peace, Ubuntu, Long

  "The Medium is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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• Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

  Henry Giroux

  Ignorance, Violence, Tragic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

  Alfred Adler

  Fate, Long, Suffering

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• The inevitability of gradualness.

  Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

  Change

  Presidential address to annual conference of Labor Party, 26 June 1923

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• Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Civilization, Effort, Tragedy

  "Henry Kissinger and the American Approach to Foreign Policy". Book by Gregory D. Cleva, 1989.

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• That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

  Meredith Monk

  Honesty, Voice, Never Quit

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• For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

  Eric Foner

  Past, Allies, Events

  Eric Foner (1988). “Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877”, Harpercollins

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• The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Book, Boys, Four

  Jack Kerouac (1971). “The Dharma Bums”, p.130, Penguin

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• It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

  Kate Millett

  Believe, People, Monogamy

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.105, University of Illinois Press

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• My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

  Maurice Ravel

  Cells, Ravens, Mathematical Equations

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• I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

  Michael Scheuer

  Believe, Thinking, Terrorism

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• Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Remembrance, Quality, Ears

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• No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

  Michael Scheuer

  Believe, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

  John Green

  Worry, Consciousness, Oblivion

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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