Adopted Quote by William McDonough

“Something needs to be destroyed for anything new to be introduced. A city is flooded before anyone thinks to build a dam. Someone you…

— Katie Kacvinsky

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

— Brennan Manning

There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and…

— Larry Wilmore

We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the…

— Betty Williams

“People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without a mounting dread of terrorist attacks,…

— Steven Pinker

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

— Marianne Williamson

if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot…

— Tariq Ali

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them…

— Gary Wolf

I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.

— Brian Grazer

Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for…

— Sheri Fink

We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.

— Kevin Brady