Rosa Luxemburg
Political Theorist, Activist
"Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable."
Inevitable quotes
Inevitable
166 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable."
Raymond Williams
Cultural Critic, Writer
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable."
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"I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation."
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"Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable."
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"Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke."
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"One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable."
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"Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high."
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"For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable."
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"Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible."
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"Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance."
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"Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related."
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"That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible."
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"Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional"
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"Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is."
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"It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats."
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"It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling."
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"Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty."
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"Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?"
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"There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment."
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"We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own."
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"I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there."
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"The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible."
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