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- Nov 07, 2020
Disaster Quotes
Most Famous Disaster Quotes of All Time!
Modern civilization can feel fragile, balanced precariously against threats like terrorism, disease, and natural catastrophe on a global scale. When disaster strikes at massive scale, the earliest hours afterward often determine everything that follows, a theme in our Crisis quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
- Nov 07, 2020
Brexit is a disaster, Italy won't be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies oftentimes when they had no violent crimes.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
- Gulf Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
Local governments are sometimes singled out as the one part of a system truly equipped to respond when catastrophe hits close to home. Post-war eras have shown how quality can slip when there's no competition pushing improvement. Read more in our Disasters, Disastrous, and Emergency quotes.