Quotes About Crisis

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

One man by delaying saved the state for us.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.