Crisis Quotes
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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 times of crisis, people overestimate what will be required.
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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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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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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There is energy and power in a crisis.
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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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After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
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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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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 history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
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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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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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The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.
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We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
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Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
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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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No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
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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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I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
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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.
