Famous quotes containing the word destinies:
“We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”
—H.A.L. (Herbert Albert Laurens)