Doomsday Clock Quotes

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

I can go into my office and pick up the telephone, and in 23 minutes 70 million people will be dead.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

There is no need to get caught up in any apocalyptic prophecies that have no basis in reality.

If the world's gonna end, Trump's gonna have something to do with it.

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

… that bloody invention… they could wipe out the whole world

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.