Catastrophe Quotes - Page 19

• Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

  Bill Gates

  Violence, Stuff, Happens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

  Uri Avnery

  Israel, Alternatives, Palestine

  Source: progressive.org

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• The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that the countries that they're going to are themselves not as stable as the citizens would like, I think. We're all just one catastrophe away from ending up as a refugee, and we don't want to be reminded of that.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Country, Thinking, Demand

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Adventure, English History, People

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• Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.

  Billy Graham

  Mean, Men, World

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• The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

  Man Ray

  Men, Machines, Use

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• What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our civilization forward. It might be curing disease, it might be eliminating poverty. Certainly it should include preventing environmental catastrophe. If AI could be instrumental to all those things, then I would feel it was worthwhile.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Moving, Civilization, Giving

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

  Masha Gessen

  People, Natural, Opposition

  "Masha Gessen: Propaganda On Russia's Own Shrinking Public Acceptance Space To Talk Of Reality". Interview with Meara Sharma, www.guernicamag.com. February 3, 2014.

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• Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Ultras, Paralysis

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• According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.

  Paul Rudnick

  Couple, Interesting, Giving

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• We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War. And I think we need to abide by that experience and our good judgment coming out of these catastrophes. We need to support that.

  Jill Stein

  War, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• There's no growth. If China has a GDP of 7 percent, it's like a national catastrophe. We're down at 1 percent. And that's, like, no growth. And we're going lower, in my opinion. And a lot of it has to do with the fact that our taxes are so high, just about the highest in the world. And I'm bringing them down to one of the lower in the world.

  Donald Trump

  America, Gdp, Growth

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.

  Van Jones

  Climate, Wrecks, Scientist

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, President, Levels

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

  Kshama Sawant

  Environmental, Fuel, Corporations

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it.

  Kshama Sawant

  Investing, Green, Casinos

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

  Robert Ley

  Greatness, Men, Fortune

  "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.

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• Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

  Simon Kuper

  Sports, War, Unity

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• Time is running out fast.  I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.

  Willem Buiter

  Running, Country, Thinking

  "New Italy PM fails to calm financial markets". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. November 17, 2011.

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• It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

  Mike Nichols

  Mean, People, Earth

  "Waiting for the Smile". Interview with Sam Kashner, Jessica Diehl, www.vanityfair.com. April 2012.

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• As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t matter to me. The world is full of suffering, distress, violence and catastrophes. Students must decide: does something concern you or not? I say: look around, analyze the problems, ask yourself what you can do and set out on the work!

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Challenges, Suffering

  "Students should become anarchists". ZEIT Campus Interview translated by IndyBay, www.indybay.org. June 14, 2011.

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• The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  War, Creativity, Thinking

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• I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Waiting, Care, Existence

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• We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Helping, Moments

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• When I saw from Rome that catastrophe (brought by Yolanda) I had to be here. And on those very days I decided to come here. I am here to be with you – a little bit late, but I’m here.

  Pope Francis

  Rome, Here I Am, Littles

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