Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days… — Willem Buiter Copy Share Image
I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case,… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least,… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
