Catastrophe Quote by Susan Sontag

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned…

— Simon Winchester

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of…

— Noam Chomsky

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

— Albert Einstein

“The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“It never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular…

— Alvin Toffler

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as…

— Stephen Kinzer

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a…

— Albert Einstein

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

— Barry Commoner

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

— Valerie Jarrett