Disastrous

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“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)