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I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

— Maurice Strong

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

— Prince

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

— George Noory

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

— Lorene Scafaria

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

— Charles Spurgeon

I am not a prophet.

— Jose Saramago

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

— Billy Graham

I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying 'the world is going to end,' who is going to listen to you?

— Nouriel Roubini

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

— Herbert Croly

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg