He who will not risk cannot win.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are…

— Octave Mirbeau

Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was…

— Ian Kershaw

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons…

— Galileo Galilei

I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in…

— Mort Kondracke

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined…

— Frank J. Tipler

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped…

— Thomas Boswell

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most…

— Ted Nelson

Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and…

— Ben Salmon

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

— Virgil

I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have…

— May Sarton

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

— Scott Hahn

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

— Bernard Cornwell