Fatalism Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. — Charles de Gaulle
they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as… — Pat Robertson
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism,… — Herbert Croly
Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful.… — Timothy Keller
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space… — Graham Swift
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse… — Margaret Culkin Banning
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the… — Joseph O'Neill
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without… — Jean de La Fontaine
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. — Karl Liebknecht
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and… — Immanuel Kant
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power… — Elif Safak
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. — Peter Ackroyd
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we… — Gerard K. O'Neill
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. — David Viscott
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. — Geoff Mulgan
It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement… — Paulo Freire
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of… — Anais Nin
The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away… — Megan Hart
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly… — William James

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