Catastrophe Quote by Pitirim Sorokin

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as…

— Dan Brown

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

— Bernard Kouchner

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in…

— Emily Greene Balch

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and…

— Isaac Asimov

The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic…

— Hans Zinsser

The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the…

— Annalee Newitz

Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons…

— Marcellin Berthelot

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods,…

— Alan Lightman

Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from…

— Dave Barry