The dusty catastrophe of Asia.Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.

-Brodsky, Ioseph
  Less Than One,'Flight From Byzantium'.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech to the Indian Empire Society, London,12 Dec.

After all the doors were shut, our region is facing a deep abyss after the turning of the Gulf crisis into an imminent catastrophe.We have not left a door that we did not knockon, ora road that we did not taketofind a political settlement of this crisis.

-Hussein, ibnTalal
  On his attempts to intercede for peace in the Gulf  War, Jan.

   The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Town and the  Automobile or the Pride of Elm Street', published in Writings (1979).

Humanhistory becomesmoreand morea racebetween education and catastrophe.

-Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
  The Outline of History, vol.2, ch.41.