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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspiring, Hope, Spring

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  Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Persistence, Long

  "Toward an Ecological Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1980.

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• All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Realization, May, Sacred

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• Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Discovery, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 22, 2015

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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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