Catastrophes Quotes

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? — Jean Anouilh
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
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
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized… — Charles Lyell
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes... — Al Gore
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes… — Barack Obama
Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a… — Al Gore
If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of… — Robert Muller
It's hard to find a reason that is not environmentally centered, that [doesn't have] something to do with global warming or what the planet is… — Rosie O'Donnell
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
Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes. — William H. Calvin
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… — Maria Cherkasova
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

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