Quotes About Crisis

Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius, it is unlikely that we will save our planet. A purely rational education will not suffice.

people are finding that in their dramatically transformed circumstances, the old forms of faith no longer work for them: they cannot provide the enlightenment and consolation that human beings seem to need.

SO NOW IT'S 1979. Year of the Goat. The Earth Goat. Here are some things you might remember. Margaret Thatcher had just been elected prime minister. Idi Amin had fled Uganda. Jimmy Carter would soon be facing the Iran hostage crisis. In the meantime, he was the first and last president ever to be attacked by a swamp rabbit. That man could not catch a break.

have to hand it to you, Esganikan. We put our boots on Earth soil less than fifteen minutes ago, and you've already offered to kick off a world war and pissed over all the diplomatic channels. Not bad. Give us another hour, and we can start Armageddon.

When you're drowning, you don't stop to teach somebody else how to swim.

And Callie said this as someone whose life was a train wreck inside of a crashing airplane inside of the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb.

You can't throw a brick without hitting a heroin addict these days." She sighed. "If only we had more bricks.

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In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed. And why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.