Catastrophe Quotes · Page 8

That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through…

— Susan Vreeland

Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a…

— Roland Barthes

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

— Lord Acton

[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of…

— Diana Trilling

That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of…

— Andrew Solomon

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos…

— Cornel West

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

— Albert Einstein

Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is…

— Norman Finkelstein

When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

— Hillary Clinton

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad…

— Winston Churchill

Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they…

— Julian Barnes

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes.…

— Gershom Scholem

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

— Mason Cooley

As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we…

— David Grinspoon

We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to…

— Wendell Berry

Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets…

— Fred Barnes

Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people…

— Noam Chomsky

Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the…

— Antonis Samaras

Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very…

— James Hillman

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit…

— Cornel West

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes…

— Robert A. Heinlein

For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like…

— Albert Camus

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe

— Bruce Chatwin

Ive got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, cause in case of a crazy…

— Theophilus London