Crisis Quotes

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in as much trouble with fracking as we are with coal. They both need to be stopped.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.

In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

What is success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No. Money, for the most part, turns people into jerks.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.