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Quotes About Crises

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.
~ Elvis Mitchell
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
Crises bring out the best in people—and the worst. They also bring out the best people—and the worst. What can one say about ignorant, arrogant, politically active people who say things like, AIDS is God's curse upon homosexuals? I can remember the words of Jesus: Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do, but then I remember Jesus said that moments after he was nailed to the cross.
~ Peter McWilliams
One of my first priorities as a new member of Congress in 2019 was to visit the CDC and learn firsthand about what they needed to help protect Americans. After my visit, I learned their budget had previously been cut, and that they needed funding to modernize their data systems to help prevent pandemics and other public health crises.
~ Lucy McBath
Crises are inherent to market economies, but managing them is the key to political success, and the media plays a vital role in getting the policy message across.
~ Sanjaya Baru
We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
~ Parker Palmer
Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.
~ Klaus Schwab
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
~ Abbe Pierre
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
~ Ivan Krastev
Enterprise takes no thought for the needs of the community. Its only aim is to increase the gains of the speculator. Hence the constant fluctuations of trade, the periodical industrial crises, each of which throws scores of thousands of workers on the streets.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Crises like the Mirai botnet can't be prevented by vague calls to protect our cybernetworks or platitudes about working with private industry. We need to be able to force recalls on consumer devices with massive security vulnerabilities.
~ Brianna Wu
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
~ Timothy Geithner
Only by a lively faith can a man learn to live in peace among the tensions of this world, secure in his ability (with God's help) to weather the crises of life, whenever they come and whatever they may be, for he knows that God is with him. In the midst of suffering or failure or even sin, when he feels lost or overwhelmed by danger or temptation, his faith still reminds him of God.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Capitalism has proved incapable of transcending fundamental weaknesses such as underutilization of productive capacity, the persistence of a permanent sector of unemployed, and periodic economic crises related to the concept of "market"—which is concerned with people's ability to pay rather than their need for commodities. (11)
~ Walter Rodney
The nation-state will devolve like an unwieldy conglomerate, but probably not before it is forced to do so by financial crises.
~ James Dale Davidson
Mr. Bunter was professionally accustomed to judge human beings by their behavior, not in great crises, but in the minor adjustments of daily life.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
~ Nathan Wolfe
Turkey is a warning: democracy is precious but fragile. It underlines how rights and freedoms are often won at great cost and sacrifice but can be stripped away by regimes exploiting national crises.
~ Owen Jones
These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.
~ David Bowie
Daesh is the enemy of Europe, and Europe cannot live with the idea that the crises that surround it don't have an effect on it.
~ Francois Hollande
But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises.
~ Karl Marx
Comment la bourgeoisie surmonte-elle ces crises ? D'une part, par la destruction forcée d'une masse de forces productives ; d'autre part, par la conquête de nouveaux marchés, et l'exploitation plus parfaite des anciens. C'est-à-dire qu'elle prépare des crises plus générales et plus formidables et diminue les moyens de les prévenir.
~ Karl Marx
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
~ Thomas Hardy