Catastrophe Quotes

“That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.”

— Walter Benjamin

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

— Ludwig von Mises

“It's a blip, not a catastrophe.”

— Donald Trump

I'm planning a catastrophe.

— Leonard Cohen

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

“It's called the Infinity Effect.”

— Edward M. Wolfe

It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

— J. Lynn

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin

“SpaceX is in the process of creating the greatest environmental catastrophe I have ever witnessed.”

— Steven Magee

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions…

— Mignon McLaughlin

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

— Karen Marie Moning

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

— Thomas Sowell

“A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune.”

— Tracy Brogan

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

— Bill Frist

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of…

— Jean Cocteau

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

— Bill Gaede

“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”

— Ruta Sepetys

There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to…

— Albert Einstein

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer…

— Jodi Picoult

I think the Israelis are beginning to realize more that they are moving toward a one-state solution, which would be a catastrophe…

— Jimmy Carter

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love…

— John Ruskin

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can…

— Richard Bausch

The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art…

— Jay McInerney

The media that's having this hysterical reaction to James Mattis retiring is the same media in many cases, the same politicians in…

— Stephen Miller

Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today…

— Yoweri Museveni

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror…

— Angela Carter

“Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able…

— Donna Tartt

Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations,…

— Noam Chomsky

There's no growth. If China has a GDP of 7 percent, it's like a national catastrophe. We're down at 1 percent. And…

— Donald Trump

Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but…

— J. William Fulbright

“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided.…

— John Kramer

“But it must be seen that the term 'catastrophe' has this 'catastrophic' meaning of the end and annihilation only in a linear…

— Jean Baudrillard

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…

— Arthur Koestler

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the…

— Harold Bloom

“For the briefest of instants, a miles-wide hole appeared from the middle of the Earth to the top of the sky. The…

— Raymond Dean White

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between…

— Robert Musil

I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to…

— Lance Armstrong

Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,…

— Slavoj Žižek