Inevitable Quotes
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
bill mckibben— p. 199 (Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003))
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.
thaddeus stevens— "Subduing the Rebellion" (22 January 1862), as quoted in The Selected Works of Thaddeus Stevens.
It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.
matt dillon— Michael Blowen (November 3, 1983), "Matt Dillon Meets Fame ....Diffidently", The Boston Globe.
I was the last to consent to the separation, but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
George III— 1785 Letter to John Adams, first US Ambassador to England, 1 Jun.
Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.
james cameron— Point of Departure (London: Arthur Barker, 1967) p. 295.
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.
ernesto 'che' guevara— Ch. 1 : General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics on which life depends are in every respect deliberate ... . It is therefore almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect ... higher intelligences ... even to the limit of God ... such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.
fred hoyle— Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1981), pp. 141, 144, 130
I have a suspicion it's inevitable, but give me my stick. I'll face it.
— 1942 On being asked what he thought about death, following a serious throat operation, quoted in John Stevens's introduction to My Remarkable Uncle (1965 edn).
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
benjamin disraeli— Benjamin Disraeli, Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (1867-10-29); reported in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), vol. 2, part 4, p. 487.
"What is the secret of your serenity ? Said the Master "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable ."
anthony de mello— p. 22 (One Minute Nonsense (1992))
Our tragic age demands poetry of courage and not whimpers about the inevitable end of all maya. People still extract pain of each other even after Buddha , Nanak and Gandhi have been preaching peace .
— Mulk Raj Anand, in Mulk Raj Anand: A Reader : Selections from His Fictional and Non-fictional ...(1 January 2005), p.xxi
The demand for a statement of a candidate’s religious belief can have no meaning except that there may be discrimination for or against him because of that belief. Discrimination against the holder of one faith means retaliatory discrimination against men of other faiths. The inevitable result of entering upon such a practice would be an abandonment of our real freedom of conscience and a reversion to the dreadful conditions of religious dissension which in so many lands have proved fatal to true liberty, to true religion, and to all advance in civilization.
— Theodore Roosevelt's Letter to Mr. J.C. Martin concerning religion and politics (November 6, 1908)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
— 1962 Speech to Latin American diplomats,12 Mar.
The laws of classical mechanics represent a mathematical idealization and should not be assumed to correspond to the real laws of nature. ... We now have to realize that errors are inevitable (..) a discovery that makes strict determinism impossible.
léon brillouin— Léon Brillouin (1962). Science and Information Theory, second edition. Academic Press, New York. p. 314. ISBN 0-48643-918-6.
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.
Germaine Greer— Chapter V: Dimension (p. 105)
The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.
lyndon larouche— "The Coming Disintegration of Financial Markets" (June 1994) [2]
What has begun in this evening will not stay for a long time, and because you represent the forces of the world of labour, you, forces of the youth, your victory is inevitable.
françois mitterrand— Château-Chinon (1974)
Science is not inevitable; this question is very fruitful indeed.
— In personal correspondence, quoted in Elisabeth Nemeth's chapter "Logical Empiricism and the History and Sociology of Science" in the Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (2007) edited by Alan W. Richardson and Thomas Uebel.
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
jorge luis borges— "Creation and P.H. Gosse" ["La creacin y P.H. Gosse"]
Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
joe haldeman— p. 205 (Forever Peace (1997))
History teaches us that war is not inevitable. Once again, it is for us to choose whether we use war or some other method of settling the ordinary and unavoidable conflicts between groups of men.
aldous huxley— What Are You Going To Do About It? The case for constructive peace (1936)
It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.
filippo tommaso marinetti— In International Futurism in Arts and Literature by Günter Berghaus (2000, p. 318)
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
theodore roosevelt— "The City in Modern Life", Literary Essays (vol. 12 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., 1926), p. 226. Book review in The Atlantic Monthly (April 1895).
That certain women were ready to sell themselves caused no excessive disgust in Isabelle. It was inevitable that a number of both men and women should compromise the institution of marriage by marrying for money, and once that happened there could be no question of impressing on the toughly logical female mind the unique vileness of prostitution. She had sometimes wondered, too, whether the contempt men felt for women who market their favors did not in part proceed from from the sense of grievance eternally felt by buyers against vendors.
rebecca west— Chapter VI (The Thinking Reed (1936))
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
walt whitman— Salut au Monde, 11.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
john f. kennedy— In a speech at the White House, 13 March 1962, Address on the first Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress.
Rebirth is inevitable so long as one has desires. It is like taking the soul from one pillow-case and putting it into another. Only one or two out of many men can be found who are free from all desires.
— Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. p. 292.
The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.
— James Martineau, p. 535. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There's no point fighting about this. You have to learn to accept the inevitable. We are all doomed anyway.
— The Devil, in Bedazzled (2000), written by Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis and Peter Tolan, based on the 1967 film by Peter Cook
