Crisis Quotes
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Instead of acting to address this developing crisis, California state lawmakers are just days away from passing legislation to ban the best rodent-control tools and methods available and would require use of less effective, so-called `green alternatives, its madness.
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With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge of crisis, "falling forward" through growth, but then responding often successfully to the problems created. What we can hope for is that with a somewhat more controlled level of growth, and with longer-term preparations for change, we can keep responding to the inevitable smaller crises, as they arise, and continue to postpone until later and later the, perhaps ultimately inevitable, end of our civilization.
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
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In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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In Greece much has been accomplished because of the common effort of all. But still much remains to be done in order to deal with our national issues, to overcome the multifaceted crisis of today, and to safeguard the place that belongs to us . . .
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We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
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That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.
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The crisis in the pensions budget is dramatic, ... There should be no taboos about discussing longer working lives and increasing both actual and legal retirement ages.
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If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
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There is energy and power in a crisis.
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The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.
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My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis.
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No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
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I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
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The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
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With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class.
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I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
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There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.
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When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.
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I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.
