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“Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.”

“We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They see a big black shadow ahead and desperately run to it, thinking it may lead them somewhere. But after running a long way, they no longer see the shadow and fall into the slough of despond. What is that shadow? It is this ""Mr. Science.”

Thinking Way Giving Humans May Long Bigs Running Fall Black Human Beings Technology Losing Shadow Contrary Desert Traveler Catastrophe Long Way Science And Technology Secured Slough

Author:Liang Qichao

“The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in human consciousness, nothing will change for the better, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed will be unavoidable.”

World Humans Heart Lying Given Consciousness Responsibility Talking This World Revolution Salvation Certainty Catastrophe Human Heart Meekness Human Consciousness Change For The Better Human Power

Author:Vaclav Havel

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

Pleasure Effort Race Praise Catastrophe

Book:The Lamp of Memory

Source: The Lamp of Memory

“Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.”

States Earth Science Revolution Evidence Extraordinary Surface Violent Explanation Catastrophe Recourse Supposition Geologist

Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope

“But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.”

“Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.”

“As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.”

Long Self Natural Chance Planets Huge Walking Moon Species Vulnerable Leap Catastrophe Extinction Star Gazing

Author:David Grinspoon

“In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.”

“If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.”

Ifs Has Beens Results Media Revolution Medical Disaster Reports Tragic Catastrophe Rebellious Collaborators Sexual Revolution

Author:Pat Buchanan

“It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.”

Ifs Men Would Be Today Women Happened Terrible Faults Catastrophe Men Women

Book:The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys

Source: The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys

“Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.”

Way Courses Felt Surprise Inevitable Precise Catastrophe Foreseen

Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley

“Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.”

Play Moments Fun Golf Clubs Holes Catastrophe Jersey Brilliance Jimmy Eighteen Golf Clubs

Author:Mario Batali

“Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.”

Ifs Writing Years Book Lasts Names Left Stars Gone Materials Broken Planes Disorder Last Year Catastrophe Pipe Lawns Banging

Author:Linwood Barclay

“There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.”

May Would Be Community Middle Chaos Calm Alternatives Civilized Catastrophe Calm Down Meltdowns

Author:Robert Cailliau

“The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.”

Art Media Kissing Breaths Entertainment Catastrophe

Author:Jason Mraz