Disasters Quote by Eduardo Galeano Download Open image “Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.” — Eduardo Galeano ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disasters Nature Victim
There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster. — Larry Sabato Copy Share Image
the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Nature’s accidents are the universe’s way of throwing chance into a system which would die of too much orderliness. Hurricanes, droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough… — Petra Nemcova Copy Share Image
In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic… — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“THE HE’S ARE SHE’S In 1847, three novels excite England’s readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion and shame.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“WALLS The Berlin Wall made the news every day. From morning till night we read, saw, heard: the Wall of Shame, the Wall of… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Being along with the Nature your soul is stronger than all disasters.” — Esat Durak Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory. — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS. — Niki de St. Phalle Copy Share Image
Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have… — James Hubbard Copy Share Image
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
