Apocalyptic Quotes - Page 4

• All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences.

  Edward Said

  Men, Order, Justice

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because we didn't cast him as a representative of the white race. We didn't give into his narrative. We did the exact opposite. And I think that we have to be careful not to give into the apocalyptic narrative of ISIS that wants to start a war between Muslims and everybody else.

  Chuck Todd

  War, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through.

  Neil Burger

  Writing, Journey, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.

  Vincent Martin

  Country, Ebola, Cities

  "Liberia Doctors Strike, U.N. Warns Of Food Shortages Due To Ebola" by James Harding Giahyue, www.businessinsider.com. September 2, 2014.

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• In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Men, Self, Space

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• Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

  Norman Mailer

  Sex, Moments, Great Sex

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• I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.

  Tom Frieden

  Ebola, Needs, Stunning

  CDC Telebriefing in West Africa, www.cdc.gov. September 2, 2014.

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• People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.

  Keiji Fukuda

  Ebola, People, Community

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• Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

  Richard E. Besser

  Pregnancy, Heart, Pneumonia

  "Another American Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola in West Africa" by Sydney Lupkin, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2014.

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• ...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months

  Margaret Chan

  Ebola, Nine, Months

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• This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

  David Nabarro

  Moving, Ebola, Effort

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• It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.

  Tom Frieden

  Opportunity, Epidemics, Ebola

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• When a friend of mine introduced me to the music of Luca C & Brigante I was stuck with an apocalyptic feeling, as if I were listening to the sound of a party at the end of the world. And with such strong imagery coming to mind I was only too happy to write with them when they asked. Flash of Light is about that last night on earth, a forewarning of the end of an era and a last chance to Love.

  Roisin Murphy

  Strong, Party, Writing

  FaceBook post by Róisín Murphy from Aug 26, 2012

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• There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Two, Kind, Terrorism

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• I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

  Jacob Latimore

  Roles, Vanishing, Firsts

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• You turn on the shower or you do whatever, but especially right now with the drought in California, there are so many resources that we are depleting so quickly. And so, I thought it would be an interesting skill set to have if something were to go down, or even if it weren't. It's not post-apocalyptic idealism. It's more just like a fun hobby.

  Shailene Woodley

  Fun, Skills, California

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

  Steve Jobs

  Knowing, Stuff, Way

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• In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.

  Ian Mcewan

  War, Self, Order

  "The day of judgment, part two" by Ian McEwan, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

  Peter Beinart

  Real, Differences, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Class, Perception

  "'Losing' the world: American decline in perspective". www.aljazeera.com. February 15, 2012.

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• When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Crazy, Israel, People

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end of the world and all sorts of other apocalyptic notions. When the tsars were finally overthrown, they were all reading tarot cards even as the revolutionaries were banging at the gates.

  Matt Taibbi

  Reading, Rome, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.

  George Alec Effinger

  Apocalypse, Horsemen, Various

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• Another thing we wanted to do, a lot of shows or movies that are in the future or the post-apocalyptic are very bleached, desaturated desert environments and we wanted to do the opposite of that. There's always talk about Chernobyl and the world that environment has recovered has become this idyllic, bizarrely refuge for wildlife.

  Miles Millar

  Opposites, Idyllic, Desert

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Mad Cow Disease, Evil

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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