A Quote by H. G. Wells

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

H. G. Wells

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H. G. Wells
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September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

H. G. Wells

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.

George Monbiot

Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.

Yasmin

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

Benjamin E. Mays

Fashion is like a four-legged table: you need a good designer, a very good business manager, a good manufacturer, and a very good distributor. Without all the legs, table collapses.

John Rocha

It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.

Richard Baxter

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

George Will

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

Chanakya

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

Dalai Lama

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Stanley Hauerwas

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

Herman Melville

If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.

Ofra Strauss

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.

Kirk Douglas

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

Amelia Barr

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