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#catastrophe

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #catastrophe




Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.


William Irwin Thompson


#catastrophe #catastrophes #domain #embodied #emergence

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.


Cornel West


#brown #catastrophe #complex #discourse #ghettos

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other. Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection towards the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stands an uncanny but fascinating halo of brilliance - evoke both fear and Titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe. The fear and enthusiasm we experience at the sight of perfect mechanisms are in exact contrast to the happiness we feel at the sight of a perfect work of art. We sense an attack on our integrity, on our wholeness. That arms and legs are lost or harmed is not yet the greatest danger.


Ernst Jünger


#catastrophe #human-perfection #technical-perfection #technology #titanism

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.


P. J. O'Rourke


#about #any #bright #catastrophe #feeling

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.


James Payn


#anyone #be careful #careful #catastrophe #good

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.


Albert Speer


#army #before #being #bring #catastrophe

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.


Virginia Woolf


#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh

The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown


Karen Thompson Walker


#age

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.


Len Wein


#complete #even #failures #feedback #finished

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.


Germaine Greer


#away #catastrophe #deal #energy #environment






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