Apocalyptic Quotes - Page 3

• I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea.

  Zach McGowan

  Ideas, World, Sci Fi

  Source: collider.com

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• Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of all nations was amazingly religious and apocalyptic - ghosts and visions, crucifixions and sacrifice, crusaders and holy warriors.

  Philip Jenkins

  Religious, Sacrifice, Warrior

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• There is the apocalyptic influence in the Trumpean presidency: The world is destroyed in order to be purified and renewed in the ideal way that is projected by a Steve Bannon. And there is a sense of that when Trump says we'll make America great again, because he says it's been destroyed, he will remake it. So there is an apocalyptic suggestion, but I don't think it's at the very heart of his presidency.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Thinking, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917 it seemed to be set until the end of time. No wonder everyone dreamed of an apocalyptic intervention.

  Philip Jenkins

  War, Wonder, Ends

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.

  Laurie Foos

  Writing, Men, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The strange thing about the apocalypse is that it's uneven. For some people, it goes one way and for others another way, so that there's always this shifting relation to the narrative of the disaster. Sometimes apocalypses are just structural fictions, and sometimes they're real. Sometimes a narrative requires an end - the fact that the beginning was always leading somewhere becomes clear at the end. There's an idea that we're always in the middle, but we posit this apocalyptic end in order to also be able to project into the past or the beginning. I think that's true and false.

  Ben Lerner

  Real, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.

  Edan Lepucki

  California, People, Scary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially Germany and Russia, both of which defined themselves as messianic nations. In both countries too, secular elites delved deeply into apocalyptic and prophetic ideas, giving their nations a millenarian bent.

  Philip Jenkins

  Country, Ambition, Player

  Interview with Scott McKnight, www.patheos.com. January 23, 2016.

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• A lot of times when I ask people what their apocalyptic fantasy life is like, they'll immediately say something like, "Oh, what I think is going to kill us is climate change or World War IV," and that's not what I'm interested in at all. The point is not about winning a bet about what's going to happen. The point is about the human action of examining the possibility, the kind of obsessive imagining about it.

  Lucy Corin

  War, Winning, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible in their own cars. You're driving past houses where maybe once in a while somebody is out, but that's about it. So I was interested in that aesthetic and I decided I wanted to write an apocalyptic narrative, but the more I thought of it, it seemed bizarre and untenable to me to pick one, so I just didn't.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Past, Car

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter. Survival is your primary focus.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Stupid, Love Is, Thinking

  "Alycia Debnam-Carey on ‘The 100′ Season 3 and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2016.

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• These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War and the end - or at least waning - of less successful, and ultimately less "just," political and economic systems. At the turn of the 21st century we appear to be entering our greatest century, a golden age. The challenge that we face is similar to that of the Classic Maya civilization: we have set in motion a "runaway train" of success.

  Arthur Demarest

  War, Successful, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who's out to destroy our civilization.

  Michael Scheuer

  Party, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."

  James Wolk

  Zoos, Thinking, Avid

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• According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening. Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

  Bob Dylan

  Hipster, America, Thieves

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Water, Phases

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of temporality of dead time, zones of abandonment and terminal exclusion marked by a loss of faith in progress and a belief in those apocalyptic narratives in which the future appears indeterminate, bleak and insecure.

  Henry Giroux

  Loss, Insecure, Time Zones

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred.

  Lindsey Graham

  Fighting, Hatred, Important

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Cities, Snow, Pussy

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take a healthy patriotism a little too far. For liberals the temptation is to say the purpose of politics is to straightforwardly bring the kingdom of God to Earth. For conservatives, I talk about Glenn Beck, the temptation is more apocalyptic and messianic, it's the temptation to say we did have a covenant with God, a literal covenant beginning with the Founding, and we are, like Israel in the Old Testament, falling away from it.

  Ross Douthat

  Fall, Thinking, Israel

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in poetry. Don't treat a proverb as an exception-less absolute.

  Craig Blomberg

  Assuming, Metaphor

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• A lot of the creature comforts and the things we take for granted, are not sustainable, especially at current population levels. And so, it's not just simply a matter of changing over to solar. It's a matter of changing our philosophies. Of learning to live, more or less, mid- or post-apocalyptic, whatever apocalyptic means.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Philosophy, Mean, Comfort

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The U.S. that I had imagined was nowhere near as crazy and as incredibly damaging and brutal and indifferent as the U.S. that we're currently living in. I thought I was being transgressive, apocalyptic, an out-there person. And then reality lapped me, it just lapped me.

  Junot Diaz

  Crazy, Reality, Indifferent

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

  David Edelstein

  Real, Book, Technological Change

  Source: www.vulture.com

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