- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catastrophic Quotes
When the stakes turn severe
These Catastrophic quotes look at severe consequences on different scales, from national austerity measures to personal decisions people deeply regret. Related: Consequences quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don't need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.
- Greek People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
- Fundamental Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the last couple of years, as the economic ground beneath all I've accomplished and cherished has shifted so profoundly in a life-shattering reversal of fortune, I've trained myself to stay alert when the roar and the rumbling of what could be catastrophic change begins.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
George W. Bush, a charming and utterly gracious man, was a catastrophic twofer. He took the United States to war in Iraq, a wrenching debacle: more than 4,000 Americans dead, nearly 32,000 wounded, and the Middle East destabilized with Iranian influence enhanced.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
- Any
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been clear that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020