Catastrophe Quotes
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Catastrophe Quote of the day
In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.
Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.
We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.
It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.
Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger.
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
