Catastrophe Quote by Jules Romains Download Open image “History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.” — Jules Romains ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catastrophe Categories History Humans Nature of man
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
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… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“But it must be seen that the term 'catastrophe' has this 'catastrophic' meaning of the end and annihilation only in a linear vision of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom… — Jules Romains Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...” — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this… — Rick Snyder Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again.… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
