Damage Quote by Honore de Balzac

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is…

— Rebecca Solnit

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

— Wole Soyinka

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

— Chuck Palahniuk

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

— Barack Obama

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

— Jim Wallis

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

— Maurice Blanchot

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

— Bertrand Russell

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

— Jared Diamond

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud..

— Nelson Mandela

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises — car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the…

— David Suzuki

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum…

— Osamu Dazai