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Quotes About Crisis

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove elsewhere, every region being equally crowded and over-peopled, and when human craft and wickedness have reached their highest pitch, it must needs come about that the world will purge herself in one or another of these three ways: floods, plague and famine
~ Nicollo Machiavelli
God turned his face the other way, and the earth was in darkness. An eclipse of God... an eclipse of God
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.
~ Noam Chomsky
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.
~ Noam Chomsky
Now, where are [Mexican illegal immigrants] fleeing from? Mostly from Central America, where they're fleeing from the results of our policies.
~ Noam Chomsky
So we march on, following our leaders, toward an "Armageddon of our own making.
~ Noam Chomsky
the crisis of democracy" as when normally passive and apathetic populations become organized and seek to enter the political arena to pursue their interests and demands, threatening stability and order.
~ Noam Chomsky
Goldman Sachs, uno de los principales arquitectos de la crisis actual, es más rica que nunca. El grupo anunció en voz baja 17.500 millones de dólares en remuneraciones para 2010, y el director general Lloyd Blankfein recibió un bono de 12.600 millones
~ Noam Chomsky
Over 90% of the water in Gaza has been deemed unfit for human consumption this was made worse when Israel attacked water sewage systems. A Large population of Palestinian children are affected by the man-made man nourishment regime caused by that is really imposed a blockage. Prevalence of anaemia in children under two years in Gaza is 72.8%
~ Noam Chomsky
Tässä kommunistien ja kapitalistien näkemykset käyvät yksiin: molemmat ajattelevat saman paradigman mukaisesti, että talous on jokaisen yhteiskunnan keskeisin alue. Itse en ole samaa mieltä. Hitaasti hiipivä identiteettikriisi, joka liittotasavaltaa on kohdannut, on vähintään yhtä vaarallinen.
~ Norbert Elias
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everything is still falling apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Where we're at right here is the beginning of the end.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The whole world is a dis­as­ter wait­ing to hap­pen.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nuestra generación no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros sí que estamos libran­do una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolución contra la cultura. La gran crisis está en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espiritual.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan. Nuestra generación no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros sí que estamos librando una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolución contra la cultura. La gran crisis está en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espirirual.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels. We're
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No puedo salvarme porque no toco fondo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We've just lost cabin pressure. I ask Marla what my name is. We're all going to die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever.
~ Chuck Wendig