Quotes About Catastrophe

All that serves to precipitate the catastrophe… is good, very good for us and our German revolution.

it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there still was time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.

It was a very inexact apocalypse.

In only a few hours, the ground turned red as though the skies had rained blood. What would happen by the end of the eighteen days?

He stepped on the unexploded artillery shell, and it tore him apart.

What exactly are you planning to put on the claim? Act of God?

The word 'catastrophe' is not permitted as long as there is danger of catastrophe turning to doom.

Nella nostra società individualista, e quindi lacerata e incoerente, abbiamo dimenticato il passato e non attribuiamo importanza se non all'effimero. Per questo corriamo verso la catastrofe, e le nuove tecnologie, contrariamente all'opinione diffusa, non ci salveranno affatto. La religione è l'oppio dei popoli, Internet è la sua eroina.

The 1953 coup was a catastrophe which slammed him [Mosaddegh] to floor, and from which Iran never fully recovered

In her excitement at the idea of just walking out the door she had walked out the door without stopping to practice and without even her sheet music, and now she had nothing to play from and nothing prepared. Some people might have been daunted by this setback. The Konigsbergs faced musical catastrophe on a daily basis, & their motto was: Never say die.

The two sides need to absorb the history of the decade before World War I, when the gradual emergence of an atmosphere of suspicion and latent confrontation escalated into catastrophe. The leaders of Europe trapped themselves by their military planning and inability to separate the tactical from the strategic.

We shouldn't be afraid of atomic bombs and missiles. No matter what kind of war breaks out—conventional or thermonuclear—we'll win. As for China, if the imperialists unleash war on us, we may lose more than three hundred million people. So what? War is war. The years will pass, and we'll get to work producing more babies than ever before.27

She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don't want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

The objective prerequisites for the proletarian revolution have not only 'ripened'; they have begun to get somewhat rotten. Without a socialist revolution, in the next historical period at that, a catastrophe threatens the whole culture of mankind.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

She had watched Rome burn down, taking with it her own world.

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Death was an existential catastrophe, a rip in the soft upholstery with which humanity padded over a hard uncaring universe, but it turned out there were an amazing number of people whose job it was to deal with it for you, and all they asked in return were huge quantities of time and money.

The end of the world is coming, and I should really be there for that." "Sure,

The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.

To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.