#inevitable

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind? ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#act #any #attack #been #centuries

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#advantage #build #follow #govern #hand

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#any #inevitable #language #more #state

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#conviction #hatreds #inevitable #national #nourish

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#always #beating #brooklyn #come #fight

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#disturbing #elements #find #i #inevitable

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#called #events #inevitable #occurred #only

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#inevitable #magic #seems #will #word

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#divergence #inevitable #men #perceive #world

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. ↗