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«It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.»
«What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self !»
«The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.»
Author: Octave Mirbeau
| Keywords:
heroism, hideous, immense, inexorable, instruments, instrument of torture, monstrous, social justice
«Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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act of God, bear on, bring to bear, definite, inexorable, irresistible, occasions, perform, physical ability, pressure, ruler, simplest
«Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
imperative, inexorable, perish
«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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adaptation, adaptations, American System, aspects, churches, church school, contained, endlessly, flowerpot, formulas, imprisoned, inexorable, in brief, in the north, kindly, mature, mother church, North, North A, North American, North by, radio, repeated, schemes, school system, sinister, subjected, the North, the press, to the north
«The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
ancient, Ancient World, compromise, doctrine, fanaticism, inexorable, lie in, negotiation, negotiations, philosophical, preaching, similar
«Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Justice,
Revenge
| Keywords:
bloody, claimant, inexorable, lest, set in motion
«He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.»
«Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
give rise, inexorable, invincible, revolt, submission
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