Catastrophe Quotes

344 quotes by 300 authors

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people… — Geraldine Brooks
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?' — Tony Campolo
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. — Noam Chomsky
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. — Noam Chomsky
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic… — Leonard Cohen
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. — Eric Alterman
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? — Jean Anouilh
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened… — Viktor E. Frankl
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might… — Malcolm X
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We… — Rose Macaulay
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of… — James Clerk Maxwell
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should… — Ludwig von Mises
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that… — Al Gore

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