Catastrophe Quote by Pitirim Sorokin

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and…

— Abbe Pierre

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“It is a turn of events that highlights a certain human arrogance about our destructive powers. It is only hubris to imagine that we…

— Andrew Blackwell

“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

“societies confronted with specific environmental circumstances-scarcity or abundance-have a higher risk of being affected by violent conflicts.”

— Philippe Le Billion

Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic…

— Tom Robbins

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

— Leo Tolstoy

We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women,…

— Derrick Jensen

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

— Vera Brittain

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

— Albert Schweitzer

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau