“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.” YearsLongHas BeensWarHappensCultureRealizingCommunityResultsImagineGenerationsOne ThingEconomicPolicyVictoryEternalVictimIncludingDefeatDisasterRuinsRegionsAlasSerbia Author:Susan Sontag
“Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.” FactsEnvironmentEconomicDevelopmentProtectProsperityDisasterExpensesStoppingOur EnvironmentEconomic Development Author:Zhou Shengxian
“America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.” PeopleWorldSelfAmericaPoliticalUnited StatesEconomicLandCitizensLuckyAreasRegardDisasterArroganceIsolationSelf SufficiencySufficiencyPromised LandPushy Author:Alison Lurie
“Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.” PeopleTwoFoundTakenEconomicInvestingFollowingDisasterOctoberTwo DaysProspectsThursday Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.” FeltPlansEconomicEuropeProgramDisasterCommunistGrandioseTakeoversMarshall Plan Author:W. Averell Harriman
“The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.” WantWholeRunningEconomyEconomicAssumingDisasterSocialismCommunismSuperiorityBlanket Author:Thomas Sowell
“God never promises exemption. He does promise companionship, which is better. He does not promise do deliver you or me or any other individual from pain, sorrow, or economic disaster, but He does give assurance the He will help us through and that there will be compensations. "I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you." These are the words of Jesus.” GivingDoeHelpingPainJesusIndividualEconomicSorrowPromiseIndividualityDisasterCompanionshipAssuranceCompensationExemption Author:Daniel A. Poling
“In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.” HumanityPowerfulCommonShareEconomicDisasterRecoveryMidstUpheavalCommon HumanityEconomic Recovery Author:Barack Obama
“Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.” IfsThinkingWorldImportantPoliticalClearEconomicHonestFrontsThis WorldNeededFundamentalsDisasterRationalMultipleEcological Author:Robert Jensen
“The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.” LongSeemsMightRunningCitiesHalfCuttingEconomicCitizensTaxesAreasUnionsPatternsPopulationFollowingDisasterAdministrationProductiveLong RunsMayorsDetroit Author:Thomas Sowell
“When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.” EconomicDisaster Author:James Cook
“Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.” EndsGovernmentPovertyEconomicArmyPaidCrisisWinterEastDisasterBitterSavingDesperateFundGatesPillsSavingsUnemployedAnecdotesCushionsEconomic CrisisDocksSyrupHandouts Author:Melanie McGrath