"Cataclysmic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interested in the working class want to see such a revolution or not, there are powerful forces in the United States that are making for just such a catastrophe. The Industrial Workers of the World has in the past and is now using all of its energies to avert such a cataclysmic debacle. It is not yet too late to avoid this terrible and sanguinary strife—provided that the I. W. W. is allowed to carry out its program of organizing and educating the workers for the purpose of taking control of, and ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto
... power of the nobility must be resisted by keener and more durable weapons than the Comitia and its temporary leaders, that the authority of the senate might yield to a slow process of attrition, but would never be engulfed by any cataclysmic outburst of popular hostility. It was no part of the statesman's task to pry into the future and vex himself with the query whether a new and permanent headship of the State might not be created, to play ...
— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge |
