Quotes of Implacable - somelinesforyou

“ Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. ”

- Henry Steele Commager

“ If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus. ”

- Albert Camus

“ The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. ”

- Albert Camus

“ The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ”

- Albert Camus

“ There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“ There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves. ”

- C. C. Colton

“ It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insa- tiable, implacable. ”

- David Brin

“ We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords. ”

- J. A. Primo De Rivera
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