Consequence Quote by Leonard Read

I think interventions tend to be wrong. That doesn't mean to say that every intervention has been a disaster, but it does mean that…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations?…

— John Gummer

Our world needs to move from managing crises to preventing them in the first place. Too often, the world responds too late and too…

— Antonio Guterres

In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet.…

— Paul Ray

Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

“Our actions, particularly interventions, can upset regions, nations, cultures, economies, and peoples, however virtuous our purpose. We must ensure that the cure we offer…

— Stanley McChrystal

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

— Thomas A. Edison

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

— Paul Bloom

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do…

— David Plouffe

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first…

— Anonymous

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no…

— Emile M. Cioran