Quotes About Crisis

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we've already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We're out of 'affirmative actions' of all kinds.

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro, and I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay within the Eurozone.

People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

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.

God doesn't want your crises-mode promises.

There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.

We'll build safe zones which is something that I think all of us want to see.

Humanity's crisis is, it seems, its inability to appreciate gifts freely given.

We are all gripped in madness. I have never seen the like nor heard of such a thing—gods, what we have become…

I always tell my clients that they can learn a lot by watching and analyzing other companies that are in crisis, especially competitors. (As that great philosopher Yogi Berra once said, "You can observe a lot by just watching.") For one thing, if a company in your industry group suffers a crisis, could you be next? Figure it out and govern yourself accordingly.

In real life we avoid crisis events. In fiction we seek them out.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

The scale of forces, this time, is planetary; the scope is centuries; the stakes are what we call civilization; and it is all taking place at the headlong speed of self-accelerating human technologies and climatic turbulence. Talk of "saving the planet" is overstated, however. Earth will be fine, no matter what; so will life. It is humans who are in trouble. But since we got ourselves into this fix, we should be able to get ourselves out of it.

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

Perveen was dismayed. "Is it necessary to burn buildings to control epidemics?