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“Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!”
— Alfred the Great, in the Doom Book (c. 893 AD)
“Turn your eyes from the Torch, Over-Mind — DOOM approaches!”
— Archie Goodwin, in lines for Doctor Doom, in Fantastic Four' # 116 : The Alien, the Ally, and Armageddon
“Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. They tacitly adjust themselves to oppression and thereby become conditioned to it. In every movement toward freedom some of the oppressed prefer to remain oppressed.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., in "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression" (1958)
“Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom … the Last March of the Ents!”
— Treebeard, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), written by Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson, based on the The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
“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, in A Free Man's Worship (1903)
“Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.”
— Virgil, in the Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 376, as translated by John Dryden

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“Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!”
— Alfred the Great, in the Doom Book (c. 893 AD)
“Turn your eyes from the Torch, Over-Mind — DOOM approaches!”
— Archie Goodwin, in lines for Doctor Doom, in Fantastic Four' # 116 : The Alien, the Ally, and Armageddon
“Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom. They tacitly adjust themselves to oppression and thereby become conditioned to it. In every movement toward freedom some of the oppressed prefer to remain oppressed.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., in "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression" (1958)
“Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom … the Last March of the Ents!”
— Treebeard, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), written by Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson, based on the The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
“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, in A Free Man's Worship (1903)
“Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.”
— Virgil, in the Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 376, as translated by John Dryden

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.