Quotes About Crisis

Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given out by their successors taking too much credit, however heroic their actions at the time of crisis (but so often in the past hopeless).

Malone: Me father died of starvation in Ireland in the black 47. Maybe you've heard of it. Violet: The Famine? Malone: No, the starvation. When a country is full o food, and exporting it, there can be no famine.

Have you noticed how people who most ignore God are the first to blame Him in time of tragedy?

When we become psychologically dependent upon crisis, it actually becomes our life motivator, and if we don't have a present crisis, we'll learn to create one.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The 'idea of Europe,' much like the 'idea of India' was the construction of such continental leaders.

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse than men.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.

We in Europe must not indulge the illusion that we could shut ourselves away from the world if it goes to pieces, and maybe offer a bit of humanitarian aid.

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

You can shut down our economy and the effect on climate change, it will be nothing.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

The world is sick.

Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.

What I call a mimetic crisis is a situation of conflict so intense that on both sides people act the same way and talk the same way even though, or because, they are more and more hostile to each other.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

I fear that the migratory crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's rights.