Crisis Quotes

• The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.

  

  Elisabet Sahtouris
  • Humanity
  • Economy
  • Civilization

• When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Executives

• The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Life
  • Important
  • Balance

• The first question is something immediate -- and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

  

  George Clooney
  • World
  • Worst
  • Aids

• 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.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Spirit
  • Financial
  • Cities

• Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Manage
  • Necessarily

• Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.

  

  Ertharin Cousin
  • Hope
  • Food
  • Goals

• 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.

  

  Arthur Demarest
  • Civilization
  • Sustainability
  • Archaeology

• There is energy and power in a crisis.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Crisis

• Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Anxiety
  • Crisis
  • Families

• My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film "Our Brand Is Crisis"came around.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Long
  • Film
  • Brands

• I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Sometimes
  • Feels
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Meaning
  • Crisis
  • History of Religions

• As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

  

  Josh Hutcherson
  • Identity
  • Actor
  • Crisis

• It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Risk
  • Economic
  • Creating

• What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.

  

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
  • Today
  • Environment
  • Matter

• At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.

  

  Blake Morrison
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Grieves

• The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.

  

  Vladimir Prelog
  • Position
  • Studies
  • Laboratory

• If the stock market does go through a crisis of confidence, which I think clearly will happen one of these days, no one can predict just like you couldn't the dot com crash or the Lehman crash, but when it goes down it will go down by thousands of points because everyone will panic. No one owns this market today because they believe there's a huge sunny future for the United States economy. They're buying because they think the Fed can keep the thing pumped up, the bubble expanding.

  

  David Stockman
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Economy

• The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Financial
  • Summer
  • Causes

• I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature

• Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

  

  Bob Tyrrell
  • Remember
  • White House
  • Chief

• My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Areas
  • Penalties
  • Activism

• But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.

  

  Nikolai Bukharin
  • World
  • End
  • Comes

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