#inevitability

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#back #backs #bent #comes #continuous

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#inevitability #long #think #willingness

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it. ↗

— Allen Klein

#begin #demise #inevitability #lighten #once

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#being #believe #bin #close #destruction

The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death. ↗

— Ahmadou Kourouma

#inevitability #death

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#form #inevitability #melody #must #our

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#bone #both #clarity #down #gentleness

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#inevitability #life #time #life

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance