Inevitable Quotes - 6
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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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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
— 1962 Speech to Latin American diplomats,12 Mar.
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]
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))
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)
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.
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
There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Chapter V: Hester at Her Needle
The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.
frederic g. kenyon— Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 134
I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.
bob knight— Knight's reply to interviewer Connie Chung's question. "There are times Bobby Knight can't do it his way—and what does he do then?" From an NBC television interview by Connie Chung on April 25, 1988 as reported in the May 09, 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated.
People who allow others not of their race to live among them will perish, because the inevitable result of a racial integration is racial inter-breeding which destroys the characteristics and existence of a race. Forced integration is deliberate and malicious genocide, particularly for a People like the White race, who are now a small minority in the world.
david lane— 88 Precepts
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. 190. (Hours of Thought on Sacred Things (1879))
The lot of the favored guest of an Indian camp or village is idleness without repose, for he is never left alone, with the repletion of incessant and inevitable feasts.
francis parkman— Pt. II, Ch. 14 The Great War Party
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Thucydides— Book I, 1.23-[6]
If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.
maimonides— Introduction
There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, in The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter V: Hester at Her Needle
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
coco chanel— Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe’s war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur— Letter to Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., (20 March 1951); read to the House by Martin on April 5.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
Andrea Dworkin— Our Blood (1976)
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence . They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
Isaac Asimov— "The Planet that Wasn't" originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1975)
