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  1. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
    book-quotehumanleadershipmistakes

  2. Don DeLillo _ White Noise

    This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psychic sense a forest fire on TV is on a lower plane than a ten-second spot for Automatic Dishwasher All. The commercial has deeper waves, deeper emanations. But we have reversed the relative significance of these things. This is why people's eyes, ears, brains and nervous systems have grown weary. It's a simple case of misuse.
    book-quotetelevisiondisastertv

  3. Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony

    People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground.
    book-quotepeopleseptember-11-attacksdisaster

  4. Rebecca McNutt _ Smog City

    I've seen a lot of stuff… maybe I've seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I've seen what they can do, how evil they can be… I've seen the Holocaust and I've seen Jonestown, I've seen the Vietnam War and I've seen Hiroshima… I've seen the Chernobyl disaster… I've seen the World Trade Center attack… I've been alive too long, over a hundred years is a long time to be alive," Alecto sighed, staring at the cigarette he was holding.
    book-quotehumannucleardeath

  5. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention- that indefinable something which forces it upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, with a strength beyond control, with an unbridled cruelty that means to tear out of him his hope and his fear, the pain of his fatigue and his longing for rest: which means to smash, to destroy, to annihilate all he has seen, known, loved, enjoyed, or hated; all that is priceless and necessary- the sunshine, the memories, the future,- which means to sweep the whole precious world utterly away from his sight by the simple and appalling act of taking his life.
    book-quotemurdermortalitydepression

  6. Walker Percy _ The Moviegoer

    Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
    book-quoterealdisaster

  7. Kim Edwards _ The Memory Keeper's Daughter

    You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
    book-quotelifedisaster

  8. Jennifer L. Armentrout _ Obsidian

    Daemon!" Dee called from the kitchen. "I need your help!""We should go see what she's doing before she destroys your kitchen." He rubbed his hands down his face. "It's possible.
    book-quotefunnydisasterkaty

  9. Gore Vidal _ At Home: Essays 1982-1988

    I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
    book-quoteusefulhumanityislam
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