Best victim & disaster Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused.”

People Has Beens Responsibility Week Victim Clean Disaster Taking Responsibility Reckless

Author:Peter Welch

“After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.”

“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.”

Years Long Has Beens War Happens Culture Realizing Community Results Imagine Generations One Thing Economic Policy Victory Eternal Victim Including Defeat Disaster Ruins Regions Alas Serbia

Author:Susan Sontag

“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.”

Should Heaven Forget Happened Revolution Victim China Disaster Fallen Torture Repeats Folly Museums Inhuman Proletariat

Author:Ba Jin

“America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.”

Reason Home America President Natural Concern Victim Humanitarian Disaster No Reason Strife President Bush Foreigners Natural Disaster

Author:Dan J. Stein

“Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.”

Victim Leaving Disaster Languish

Author:Cedric Richmond

“Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.”

World Needs May Community Effort Support Communication Victim Foundation International Communicate Disaster Agency Relief Fund Assistance International Community Time Of Need

Author:Ted Turner

“Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.”

May Able Faces Next Challenges Broken Victim Leaving Disaster Hard Times Steel Crops Comes And Goes Makes You Stronger

Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“I let a friend set me up on a blind date. It was a disaster. She ended up being a burn victim. By the end of the night.”

Ends Night Dating Victim Blind Disaster Blind Date

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.”

May Happens Happened Easier Victim Disaster Shells

Author:James Surowiecki

“My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.”

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Author:Ellen Tauscher

“Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.”

People Nations Natural Victim Disaster Vegetables Natural Disaster Soybeans

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.”

Heart Persons Might Earth House Natural Conditions Circumstances Disease Victim Disaster Burning Injury Hurricanes Earthquakes Heart Attack Natural Disaster Burning Down

Author:David Emerald Womeldorff

“The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.”

Ifs Way Ideas Next Succeed Victim Surprise Endure Disaster Superiors Invincible

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.”

Source: Arrow in the blue: an autobiography

“How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.”

Source: Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood

“The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.”

War Nations Social Goal Natural Progress Share Economic Victim Committed Humanitarian Disaster Assistance Natural Disaster Scientific Progress Unesco Victims Of War

Author:Bill Bradley

“I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.”

Trying Differences Victim Moved Inspired Disaster Making A Difference Plight Tsunami

Author:Alanis Morissette

“The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come across, in the 1690s. And they were victims of famine. Over that decade, 30000-50000 people were fleeing from that disaster. In terms of per capita loss, it was of the same order of magnitude as the Irish famine (of the 19th century).”

People Order Term Loss History Century Victim Majority Decades Disaster County Famine 19th Century Magnitude Fleeing 18th Century Scots Lineage Ulster

Author:Tom Devine

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