Inevitable Quotes
998 Inevitable quotes by 787 unique authors
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The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is…
— Allan Bloom
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all…
— Will Durant
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Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save…
— Hannah Arendt
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However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain…
— Louis Althusser
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it…
— Martha Graham
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A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the…
— Sol LeWitt
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I think there's no question that, even though we may not have the evidence as Richard (Perle) says, that there have been such contacts (between…
— Wesley Clark
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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
— Clive James
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I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders…
— Nelson Mandela
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The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you…
— Tony Blair
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All conflicts can be resolved. Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by…
— Martti Ahtisaari
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I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but…
— Audrey Hepburn
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences,…
— Wendell Berry
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Failure is all a matter of perspective. Think of all the people you admire. I guarantee you they all failed at one time or another.…
— Jillian Michaels
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense…
— Terry Eagleton
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Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture…
— Rene Konig
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Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
— Barbara Sher
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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the…
— Gwynne Dyer
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The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the…
— Unknown Author
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who…
— Plato
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Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the…
— Michael J. Gelb
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Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared…
— Mike Mason
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It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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