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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British writer, academic and educator 1943Related quotes
“You belong to whom you inevitably think.”
Original: Appartieni a chi pensi inevitabilmente.
Source: prevale.net
“The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.”
Source: The Autobiography of My Mother
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
“Now one will inevitably raise the question: How then do we conquer self-centeredness?”
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Context: Now one will inevitably raise the question: How then do we conquer self-centeredness? How do we get away from this thing that we call self-centeredness? How can we live in this universe with a balance and with a type of perspective that keeps us going smoothly and we are not too absorbed in self? How do we do it?
J'accuse! (1898)
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.”
Source: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 20 (p. 84)
Source: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 137
"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
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