Inevitable Quotes - Page 12

• We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.

  William J. Clinton

  Beach, Moving, Sacrifice

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994”, p.1046, Best Books on

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• What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

  Karl Marx

  Fall, Victory, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  Edward Bernays

  Powerful, Practice, Agriculture

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• Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

  Peter Mandelson

  World, Growing, Facts

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• 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

  Science, Hands, Order

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Lying, Bully, Voting

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• Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and accordingly, as if it were for charity to veil the violation of justice which lawmakers not only tolerated but at times sanctioned, wanted the whole care of supporting the poor committed to charity alone.

  Pope Pius XI

  Law, Justice, Veils

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, War, Simplicity

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

  Peter Ustinov

  World Government, Safety, Wish

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• Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Dream, Ignorance

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• It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

  Gertrude Stein

  Self Esteem, Needs, Lovers

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• Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

  Harrison Ford

  Writing, Film, Wide

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• To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Evil, Giving, Freedom Of The Press

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

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• Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

  Stephanie S. Tolan

  Depression, Mental Illness, Cures

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• The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Men, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop.

  Paul Otellini

  Moving, Broken, Dams

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• Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Beautiful, Dream, Morality

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• I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

  Johnny Carson

  School, Voice, People

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• Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

  Eliza Dushku

  School, Years, Next Year

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• Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

  David Cronenberg

  Home, Technology, Body

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All the choices we make in our life are pointless.  There’s no escaping the inevitable.

  John Cusack

  Escaping, Choices, Our Lives

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• Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.

  Albert Finney

  Winning, Men, Losing

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• You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species!

  Unknown

  Real, Flying, Next Steps

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• I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

  Toni Collette

  Live Life, Character, Thinking

  "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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