Disaster Quotes - Page 28

• If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Long, People, World

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, caused by a company they now own, Union Carbide. In the past, Diane's hunger strikes had been lonely affairs, but this time friends and co-conspirators from around the country took turns joining her on her flatbed truck under the hot Texas sun, greeting Dow workers as they entered the plant.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Lonely, Responsibility

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already started: God has begun to send them heat when they expect cold; he sends them cold when they expect heat. Their crops are dying, their children are being born with all kinds of deformities, the rivers and lakes are coming out of the belly of the earth to wash them away.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive, legislative, judicial branches) in the hands of an organization - the Republican Party - dedicated to escalating the race to disaster.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Party

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Method, Intimidated

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

  Nat Hentoff

  Invasion, Privacy, Supervision

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Partnership, Easy, Irreparable

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.

  David Remnick

  Surprise, Nations

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Team, College, Winning

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Government, Priorities

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."

  Edward Snowden

  Data, Creating, Japan

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Obamacare is a disaster. And you remember, I called that from before it was approved. I said, "This can't work, because it's just... The plan is no good. The concept is no good," and it turned out to be much worse.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Remember, Said

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I left small businesses a little while ago and they were all complaining that Obamacare is putting them out of business. Not only the regulations, which are a disaster and the taxes, but Obamacare is putting them out of business.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Complaining, Littles

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Obamacare is an absolute disaster! And half the country knows it's a disaster because the alternative media read the bill and told you what's in it and gave you the absolute anti-American contents to this piece-of-garbage bill. Half of the country doesn't know what's in it. They think it's free health care because that's what Obama's been out lying to people, you keep your doctor, keep your plan and your premium's coming down $2,500. People were lied to through his teeth. And they believed him.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Lying, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Peaceful

  Source: progressive.org

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• Despite the economic disaster that is Russia, there are still air shows taking place in the country.

  Paul Virilio

  Country, Russia, Air

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

  David Bowie

  Running, Thinking, Would Be

  "POP MUSIC : David Bowie: The Man Who Fell . . . Then Got Up Again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. April 4, 1993.

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• The weird part is actually, there were so many exceptionally talented people there [ on "MADtv"]. But it was a disaster. I don't think I enjoyed any of it, really. I had a different sensibility.

  Simon Helberg

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Stuff, Said

  "Here Are the Top Five Takeaways From Yesterday’s Trump Interview". www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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• I'll absolutely do safe zones in Syria for the people. I think that Europe has made a tremendous mistake by allowing these millions of people to go into Germany and various other countries. And all you have to do is take a look. It's a disaster what's happening over there.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Obamacare is a disaster. It's too expensive. It's horrible health care. It doesn't cover what you have to cover. It's a disaster.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Health Care, Horrible

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Obamacare is a disaster waiting to explode. If you sit back and let it explode, it's going to be much easier.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Waiting, Easier

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

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• The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

  John Darnielle

  Way, Possibility, Remains

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Economy, Term, Trans

  Source: larouchepac.com

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• [My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Brother, Law, Grandfather

  Source: www.npr.org

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