“The Sichuan disaster is not the first nor the most wrongful. But all the details of this tragedy will be forgotten, and once again it will be like nothing ever happened. Eventually all these disasters will together create a bizarre miracle called civilization and evolution.”
2000-09, Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan, 2009
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“Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.”
Cities of the Red Night (1981)
Context: There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.
“And now cruel famine came – famine that is ever first in the train of great disasters.”
Jamque comes semper magnorum prima malorum<br/>saeva fames aderat.
Jamque comes semper magnorum prima malorum
saeva fames aderat.
Book IV, line 93 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.”
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Book I, 1.78-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster