Calamity Quote by Raisa Gorbacheva

The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see…

— A. C. Bradley

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much…

— H. L. Mencken

“Every war invariably results in terrible tragedies, immense waste and sinful destruction. All wars, no matter how big or small, how nearby or far…

— Takayuki Ishii

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the…

— David Mamet

The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues

— Louis Wolfson

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

— Georges Clemenceau

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply…

— William Ellery Channing

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy…

— Aeschines

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

— Albert Pike

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile…

— Norbert Wiener

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost…

— Whittaker Chambers

War is a defeat for humanity.

— Pope John Paul II