Eric Schlosser Quotes

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts