Fatalism

Fatalism is the belief that all events are predetermined by the events that happened before them, and there is no possible alteration of the events in one's life.

Just In Case by Meg Rosoff: Questions 2006

Fatalism is part of the birthright of the marginalized.

Mutual aid and survival in the mountains of Oaxaca 2000

Fatalism is part of the birthright of the marginalized.

Mutual aid and survival in the mountains of Oaxaca 2000

Fatalism is expressed by a saying, "Even the fish which inhabit the seventh depth of the sea sooner or later enter the net."

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

Suffice it to say that their idea of the universe as Reason and God naturally led the Stoics into a kind of Fatalism, a destined order in the world which nothing could effectually oppose; [798] and they were naturally in some difficulty in reconciling this with the freedom of Man's will.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

"According to these traditions," says Dr. Zwemer, "and the interpretation of them for more than ten centuries in the life of Moslems, this kind of Predestination should be called Fatalism and nothing else.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

Fatalism is not an American cultural characteristic, however.

U.S. donations not rushing to Japan 2011

Fatalism is a word often used to describe the common attitude of Japanese.

Japan's Shattered Mirror Ian Buruma 2011

Fatalism is a form of compliance disguised as realism.

Sandra Steingraber: The Hope Inside Canada's Garbage Cans 2010

Fatalism or blind dependence on God, which negates the relevance of man's own effort is, therefore, not only a real obstacle for one's spiritual progress, but a great impediment to overall human progress, and should therefore be shunned.

Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010