Quotes About Crisis

A democracy that is reduced in having state of emergency and security as its unique paradigms, is no longer a democracy.

El problema es que se puede diagnosticar un ataque de pánico muy a la ligera, con el consiguiente riesgo de llamar pánico a una crisis histérica, o a la ansiedad generalizada, o a una fase de angustia profunda o, peor aún, a una verdadera patología orgánica, con consecuencias a veces realmente funestas.

He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.

Quando se neutraliza um atentado antes que ele se produza, ninguém se apercebe disso, ao passo que reagir com força, denunciar os culpados, isso sim, produz capital político.

Economist Robert Higgs wrote a book about this phenomenon titled Crisis and Leviathan, in which he argues that government intervention inevitably creates future problems, which results in the government's intervening even more in an attempt to correct them.)

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.

What use is decency when we have been thrust into this peril—treading about without even a corset! Are we to be judged?

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

When fire is cried and danger is nigh, "God and the firemen" is the people's cry; But when 'tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

Abraham Lincoln, said, just before his assassination: I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

It sounds awful, but a crisis rarely ends without blood on the floor. That's not easy or pleasant. But sadly, it is often necessary so the company can move forward again.

Number Ten Downing Street." "Oh, good lord!" "No, I would say the Right Honourable Gentleman has never been that good, not with the mess this country's in

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

STEED: But in a presidential crisis I expect him to be presidential.

It is the epoch of threatening disaster, ruin, and persecution which divides the sheep from the goats

This is the final bubble. The US government now has to keep printing money to keep things stable. Maybe when the economy booms again they can hold off—but that might be a while.

Execution saved Lois's life.

We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement.

The white racist has ruled the world for a long time, and the crises we are undergoing now are involved with the fact that the habits of power are not only extremely hard to lose; they are as tenacious as some incurable disease.

I'd say we're in the sewer, up to our chins, and the tide's coming in fast.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.