Deaths Quotes

“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“In 1999, The Black Book of Communism endeavored to attempt the impossible task of tabulating a Marxist-Leninist death toll in the twentieth century. It came up with a figure approaching 100 million. Here is the breakdown:

*USSR: 20 million deaths
*China: 65 million deaths
*Vietnam: 1 million deaths
*North Korea: 2 million deaths
*Cambodia: 2 million deaths
*Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
*Latin America: 150,000 deaths
*Africa: 1.7 million deaths
*Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
*The international communist movement and
Communist parties not in power:
about 10,000 deaths”
― Paul Kengor, The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

“Poems are not advertisements braying
For the good life
They have serious work to do
Birthing people burying people
Celebrating joy mourning loss”
― Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes

“Deregulation is known to lead to dangerous products, injuries and deaths.”
― Steven Magee

“The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the preeminent US-based center for detailing communist crimes, cites the figure of 100 million deaths. Numerous others agree and could be listed here. Dr. Malia aptly noted that the communist record offers the 'most colossal case of political carnage in history.”
― Paul Kengor, The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

“The huge reduction of deaths from natural disasters is yet another trend to add to the pile of mankind's ignored, unknown success stories.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Each life deserves its own measure of respect; they are not kindling wood, to be bundled together.”
― Elizabeth Moon, Oath of Fealty

“I took a look through the recent Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Twitter feed and could find no information on the full range of sicknesses, diseases and deaths known to occur in Mauna Kea and La Palma summit workers.”
― Steven Magee

“The reason why I was able to research and publish books on the sicknesses, diseases and deaths in professional astronomy summit workers is because I knew of no one that was doing it and I had seen and heard a lot of strange things about summit workers when I worked in the field.”
― Steven Magee

“During my time in professional astronomy, I became aware of many unusual deaths that had not been present in other fields I had worked in.”
― Steven Magee

“The hurricane Ian deaths peaked in Lee County.”
― Steven Magee

“The Florida government chose to report the officially recorded deaths by the coroner to the media instead of the much higher number of dead that law enforcement was finding during the hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“Hurricane Ian followed by a large number of deaths and historic river flooding was the short term disaster, the long term disaster was the thousands of people left homeless.”
― Steven Magee

“Not reporting the number of dead bodies that were known to law enforcement created confusion about the total number of hurricane Ian deaths.”
― Steven Magee

“The Florida government is a modern version of Pinocchio.”
― Steven Magee

“A lack of transparency may come to haunt Florida in the future.”
― Steven Magee

“Hurricane Ian seemed to have the biggest impact on the sick, disabled and the elderly in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“Do not confuse truth with conspiracy.”
― Steven Magee

“You do not want to be in Florida when a monster hurricane is approaching.”
― Steven Magee

“The bulk of hurricane Ian’s deaths were drownings.”
― Steven Magee

“The majority of hurricane Ian deaths were drownings, vehicle crashes, medical emergencies, falls and suicides.”
― Steven Magee

“Poor Florida!”
― Steven Magee

“The statement ‘We will rebuild’ can be a form of insanity.”
― Steven Magee

“Is the government honest? The Florida hurricane Ian disaster answered that question.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida as a retirement community may have ended with hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you believe the Florida government?”
― Steven Magee

“Ignoring current and past worker health issues and deaths is facilitating the biologically toxic field of professional astronomy for the foreseeable future.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Some professional astronomy telescopes are associated with unusual illnesses and deaths in their workers.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Jammu and Kashmir's suddenly silence should not be taken as peace”
― Peace in Kashmir-2023

“We live as if we are immortal, as if our presence here is everlasting, remaining oblivious to the fleeting nature of our existence. We take lives for granted, and this misconception leads us to live inefficiently and wastefully. It’s only when we find ourselves incapacitated by sickness or on the doorstep of death that we often realize this profound truth of life. Unfortunately, by then, it’s already too late.”
― Enric Mestre Arenas, THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being