Catastrophe Quotes

344 Catastrophe quotes by 289 unique authors

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone… — Peter Sloterdijk
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know… — P.D. James
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all… — Susan Sontag
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. — Al Gore
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it? — Eric Chivian
The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe. — Robert Solow
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will… — Unknown Author
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be… — David McCullough
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.... — Mignon McLaughlin
That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to… — Andrew Solomon
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force. — Otto Schily
Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. — George Galloway
Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could… — Jack Kerouac
I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space. — Gabe Newell
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms. — Bill Frist
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who… — David Deutsch
We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we… — Dean Kamen
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its formsâ€”from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to… — Peter Thiel
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug

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