Unthinkable Quotes - Page 10

• When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Stopping, Threshold

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 28, 2014

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• It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

  Carl Sagan

  Years, May, Matter

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.98, Ballantine Books

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• If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Class, Enemy, Slavery

  "Statism and Anarchy". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1873.

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• If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracy, Politics, Honest

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Appreciate, Effort

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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