Harvey V. Fineberg Quotes

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Blizzards, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

The impacts of extreme weather are already creating chaos.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?" "Yum," said Mogget. "Yes, sir!" mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried to smother the burning wreckage of his switchboard with a fire blanket.

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.