#inevitable

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#contemporary #defeat #form #greatest #identity

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

#fight #human #ill #inevitable #poverty

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#long #long period #made #measurements #period

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard! ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#hard #inevitable #making #natural #obvious

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concern #dedicated #every #every step #exertions

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#bit #die #going #inevitable #little

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#demise #did #distance #else #him

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

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#complement #democracy #inevitable #obstacle