Quotes About Disasters

It is my assertion, however, that the project of remaking humanity and defining identity has been at the core of this century, and that much of this project was characterized by a tremendous destructive urge followed by a long and as yet uncompleted process of coming to terms with the disasters it has produced and is still producing in many parts of the world.

When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized.

Poverty has many dimensions, but its causes include unemployment, social exclusion, and high vulnerability of certain populations to disasters, diseases and other phenomena which prevent them from being productive.

History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.

Las historias son criaturas salvajes -dijo que monstruo-. Cuando las sueltas, ¿quién sabe los desastres que pueden causar?

Las historias son criaturas salvajes -dijo el monstruo-. Cuando las sueltas, ¿quién sabe los desastres que pueden causar?

If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.

Education also equips women to face the most dramatic climatic changes. A 2013 study found that educating girls "is the single most important social and economic factor associated with a reduction in vulnerability to natural disasters.

Why the Jews? Because an ancient tradition of blaming them for disasters, both present and prospective, a tradition deeply rooted in religious rivalry and superstition, persisted into the modern world and even assumed new forms during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In China it's common for people in restaurants to complain about food. The Chinese can be passive about many things, but food is not one of them; I suppose this is one reason they've ended up with a first-rate cuisine and a long history of political disasters.