The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe. — Daniel Botkin Copy Share Image
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to… — Eric Chivian Copy Share Image
someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying.… — Eric Shipton Copy Share Image
Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It was the wrong place at the wrong time kind of shit that had quickly turned into a catastrophe of epic proportions” — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe. — Vasily Chuikov Copy Share Image
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“How someone wants to explain catastrophe isn't important--that's what I know now. When shit happens, it doesn't really matter what asshole is… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
My young mind began to become insurgence. At first, it was so cynically unorganized. Everything was a chaos! A total disaster! Until… — Prince Chad III Copy Share Image
