Catastrophe Quotes

344 Catastrophe quotes by 289 unique authors

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. — Jules Romains
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. — Carl Jung
Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk… — Jonathan Dimbleby
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at… — Tony Blair
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt
In his essay, â€˜Perpetual Peace,â€™ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by… — Henry A. Kissinger
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. — Aharon Appelfeld
Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and… — Robert Musil
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent… — Fred Barnes
Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes. — William H. Calvin
Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we… — Carl Safina
In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — Joel Garreau
The problem of environmental children's health is very urgent in Russia. Environmental situation now is the main factor, which determines young generation's health... the volume… — Unknown Author
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which… — Walter Benjamin
The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are… — Deepak Chopra
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may… — John Holdren
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a… — Al Gore

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