Bigs Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power.

— Michael J. Knowles

As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these…

— Naomi Klein

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

— Sergei Lavrov

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how…

— Paul Watson

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

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

— Ted Danson

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

— Mario Savio

A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most…

— Noam Chomsky

Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.

— Erin Brockovich

In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major…

— Dalai Lama

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

— Michael Arden

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

— Dan Ariely