Hurricane katrina Quote by Naomi Klein

Some people dote on contemplating disasters.

— William Gibson

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm…

— Jim Shepard

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

— Irwin Redlener

As George Bush's infamous for once saying by mistake, he said, "Mother Nature is a terrorist." So it was with Katrina - the devastation…

— Stanley Greene

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

— Bruce Lipton

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

— Sergei Lavrov

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

— Jim Wallis

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

— Edgar Allan Poe

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

— Stephen Mitchell

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