The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
Kazuo Ishiguro

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
John Desmond Bernal

There is no armor against fate.
James Shirley

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte

These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.
Heinrich Himmler

This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.
Gideon Welles

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.
Ginny B. Waite

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
Alex Grey

To bear is to conquer our fate.
Thomas Campbell

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
Gustav Krupp

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased.
Janez Drnovsek