Catastrophe Quotes · Page 7

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

— Steven Magee

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

— Vladimir Putin

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

— James A. Owen

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

— Bill Gates

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

— Iyad Allawi

“In my head, when the gales are riding wild, I steer towards catastrophe then write about it.”

— Robin Robertson

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

— Hector Bianciotti

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

— Niall Ferguson

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I…

— Mike Nichols

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we…

— Tony Blair

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

— Noam Chomsky

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to…

— Charles Adams

“…Life is catastrophe…Everything is unfair. Who do we complain to in this shitty place?…We all lose everything that matters in the end…it's…

— Tartt Donna

Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone…

— Billy Graham

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

— Sylvia Earle

A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there,…

— Bill Mollison

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is…

— Frank O'Hara

So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up…

— Ruben Ostlund

As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they…

— Noam Chomsky

According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and…

— Paul Rudnick

“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the…

— Thomas Frank

“Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe. Not love. Not money. Not faith. Not a pure heart or good deeds—and not bad…

— Therese Anne Fowler

Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant…

— Val Plumwood

In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have…

— Paul Davies

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When…

— Judith Lewis Herman

The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting…

— Charlie Brooker

While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences…

— James H. Cone

Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry…

— William Henry Chamberlin

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total…

— Daniel Quinn

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that…

— Doris Lessing

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.

— Gabe Newell

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

— Kurt Tucholsky

“So you think your life has become a catastrophe Oh, but it has to be for you to grow, boy.”

— Supertramp

The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.

— Jason Mraz

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

— Jules Romains

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

— Theodor Adorno

Boy trouble, huh?" "Boy catastrophe is more like it. I'm not sure I can do this." "Do what?" Concern sounded in Holiday's…

— C.C. Hunter

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

— Norman Borlaug