Catastrophe Quotes - Page 20

• There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

  Peter Altenberg

  Ambition, Men, Two

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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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• I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell on the Future of Games, Wearable Computers, Windows 8 and More". allthingsd.com. July 25, 2012.

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• If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Bystanders, Hands

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• The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

  John Ruskin

  Race, Effort, Praise

  John Ruskin (2008). “The Lamp of Memory”, p.43, Penguin UK

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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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• Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the diaspora. But I always deemed myself a child of Jerusalem, one who is in reality a native of Jerusalem.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Children, Reality, Rome

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• For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

  Mark Skousen

  Friday, Strong, Black

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Philosophical, Ideas, Space

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

  Simon Kuper

  Sports, War, Unity

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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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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Education, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Fall, Sacrifice

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• Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged to her; because Britain was afraid of Germany getting too strong.

  Joachim von Ribbentrop

  Strong, War, Germany

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• Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Common Sense, Starting Over, Together

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• We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.

  Ansel Adams

  Men, Erosion, Games

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• Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Suffering, Patterns

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• Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

  Honore de Balzac

  Powerful, Passion, Wine

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• Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Strong, Fall, Oneness

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic

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