“Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this?”
In a letter to his wife Clemmie, during the build up to World War I.
Early career years (1898–1929)
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Winston S. Churchill601
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965Related quotes
Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist
As quoted in "Antoni Tapies" by Serafin Garcia Ibanez in the UNESCO Courier (June 1994) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1994_June/ai_15630919/print?tag=artBody;col1. <br class="br">1991 - 2000
“Everything can tend toward diminishing returns and unsustainability, […] even in the short term.”
James Howard Kunstler book The Long Emergency
Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 7, p. 240.
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
Letter to his mother, written from the University of Pennsylvania (12 February 1904), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 5
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Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985) Soviet politician
Quoted in "Speeches and Writings: Leaders of the World" - Page 186 - by Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko - Political Science - 1984
Mozi (-470–-391 BC) Chinese political philosopher and religious reformer of the Warring States period
Book 4; Universal Love III
Mozi
Context: Now, as to universal love and mutual aid, they are beneficial and easy beyond a doubt. It seems to me that the only trouble is that there is no superior who encourages it. If there is a superior who encourages it, promoting it with rewards and commendations, threatening its reverse with punishments, I feel people will tend toward universal love and mutual aid like fire tending upward and water downwards — it will be unpreventable in the world.
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Said in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood; quoted in Alan Wood's Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7
1950s
“I am catastrophically in love with you.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess