Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 215
“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 1, p. 6
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Context: Meanwhile, in Paris, truth was marching on, inevitably, and we know how the long-awaited storm broke. Mr. Mathieu Dreyfus denounced Major Esterhazy as the real author of the bordereau just as Mr. Scheurer-Kestne was handing over to the Minister of Justice a request for the revision of the trial. This is where Major Esterhazy comes in. Witnesses say that he was at first in a panic, on the verge of suicide or running away. Then all of a sudden, emboldened, he amazed Paris by the violence of his attitude.
“Remember, the inevitable inefficiency of a huge bureaucracy will be working for you.”
Robert Sheckley book The Status Civilization
Source: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 20 (p. 84)
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Source: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 137
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