A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin Hindenburg, in 1937 . . .
R. W. Apple
Disaster
While many people like
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse. As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
Aberjhani
You have no control
You have no control [over natural disaster]. That’s what’s scary about it. You’re helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
R. L. Stine
It is not till
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.
R. H. Tawney
If a poem is
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
A. R. Ammons
This book has been
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
A. N. Wilson
No one talks about
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It’s that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it’s not moral or that it’s not Constitutional.
Ron Paul
History teaches that wars
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster. Ronald Reagan
Don’t grieve for what
Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening. Rumi