Doomed Quotes

455 quotes by 381 authors

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
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
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
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
An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure. — Genghis Khan
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
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
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
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
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
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the fleshâ€“ whatever pleasures we know are doomed… — Guillermo del Toro
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences… — Max Nordau
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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