Disastrous Quotes

• The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Control

• It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Soul
  • Effects
  • Diseases

• The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Consequences
  • European
  • Widespread

• She chose you for your deficiencies, not in spite of them, a new kind of mating strategy for millennial women whose priority is keeping the more disastrous fathers away, not establishing a nuclear family.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Chose
  • Disastrous
  • Nuclear Family

• I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Thinker
  • Disastrous

• As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Pay
  • Marriages
  • Disastrous

• Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Kids
  • Phone
  • Parenting