Doomed Quotes
455 quotes by 381 authors
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I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I…
— David Walker
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The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams,…
— Adam Parfrey
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Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him…
— Henry Thomas Buckle
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An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
— Genghis Khan
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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
— Marvin Minsky
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As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon…
— Darcey Steinke
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Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
— Al Goldstein
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Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that they…
— Eda LeShan
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J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never…
— J. Edgar Hoover
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed…
— Guillermo del Toro
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How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences…
— Max Nordau
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Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a…
— John F. Kennedy
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History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent…
— Robert Jensen
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Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce…
— Sigmund Freud
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Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God…
— Frederic Farrar
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I can't remember when I've liked a character as much as I've liked young Lyle Rettew, or when I've cheered one on so hard, despite…
— Pinckney Benedict
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Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the…
— Doug Bandow
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The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into…
— Gustave Le Bon
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With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for…
— Shirley Conran
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