Quotes About Crisis

Society must increasingly become polarized between a shrinking capitalist class and a massive proletariat that suffers worsening misery. A crisis point will arrive when this cannot continue and revolution must occur.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

In times of crisis, it's wonderful what the imagination will do.

The worst part of the potato blight was that it didn't go away. After the 1845 crops failed, people counted on the potatoes of 1846 to pull them through, but those potatoes rotted away, too. For some reason the crop of 1847 survived, but not enough fields of potatoes had been planted to produce enough food for everyone who needed it. And in 1848 the blight reappeared with a vengeance.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war that pushed old orders into crisis...

Hay crisis en muchos campos, pero parece que el periodismo las convoca todas.

Now I realize that sliding underneath a table in a restaurant is somewhat of an I Love Lucy response to a crisis, but once I'm down on the floor I can't very well reappear without giving some thought as to how I'm going to accomplish it.

Lots of businesses talk about values, but in turbulent times, when they matter most, executives often forget to operationalize them.

D]ie meisten Schriftsteller sind in einer Krise oder haben gerade eine Krise überwunden oder befürchten eine Krise. Daher genießen sie die Krise eines Kollegen beinahe wollüstig.

To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

But unfortunately, decent people are usually slow to act and ignore dangers until a crisis erupts. They are sluggish and willing to abide with peace without honor, but their own inaction causes them to lose both.

It's the end of the world every day, for someone.

God isn't what they say," she said. She said you could believe in Gilead or you could believe in God, but not both. That was how she had managed her own crisis. I said that I wasn't sure I would be able to choose. Secretly I feared that I would be unable to believe in either. Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?

Homelessness is a nationality now.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

It was hard to believe. The entire government, gone like that. How did they get in, how did it happen? That was when they suspended the Constitution.

Oh God. It's no joke. Oh God oh God. How can I keep on living?

a shocking 40 percent of the population in this region is jobless, with 50 percent of those being under twenty-five. That's a recipe for systems breakdown, right there: for anarchy, for chaos, for the senseless destruction of property, for so-called revolution, which means looting and gang rule and warlords and mass rape, and the terrorization of the weak and helpless.

This is a pattern humankind has repeated many times over the course of its history. When there is a crisis, whether real or imagined, culprits—whether real or imagined—must be found and eliminated.

In business," Siilasmaa said, "we forget that we are human. Many strong leaders think they should not be friends with their colleagues. I disagree. Business is emotional. I like to be friends with my colleagues. You get through a crisis because you care so much.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Why, she had never had to do a thing for herself in all her life. There had always been someone to do things for her, to look after her, shelter and protect her and spoil her. It was incredible that she could be in such a fix. Not a friend, not a neighbor to help her. There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves. And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.