Quotes About Crisis

The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

It is important in football, as in any walk of life, to appear calm in times of crisis. To hide weaknesses. Pep told them with conviction that they were on the right path.

décadas enteras de mala política, de inmensos desequilibrios económicos, de pésima educación no pueden más que llevar a una comunidad al suicidio o a la histeria.

El orgullo de ser mexicano aumenta en momentos de crisis. Eso explica que en los últimos 70 años hayamos estado tan orgullosos. El orgullo entre nosotros es una forma de la desesperación.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to paper. The disease is a crash course in meaninglessness, lack of structure, the collapse of form.

Egy halálosan beteg társadalom húsz körömmel kapaszkodik a tulajdon halálos betegségébe. Ha meggyógyítja, beledöglik.

Lo característico de los movimientos populistas es introducir nuevas clientelas al erario público. Por ello terminan con frecuencia en crisis fiscales que se llevan todo lo ganado.

Luego de la represión del movimiento estudiantil de 1968, un sentimiento de agravio levantó sombras de ilegitimidad y amagos de violencia sobre la solidez, de apariencia monolítica, del régimen. La crisis económica de 1982, que significó la quiebra de las finanzas públicas, erosionó seriamente el acuerdo de la sociedad con los gobiernos priistas y, por tanto, con la legitimidad de su pacto sucesorio.

La debilidad fundadora de todas las otras debilidades del Estado mexicano es su penuria fiscal.

Casi 100 años después, en 1947, el historiador Daniel Cosío Villegas escribió en su famoso ensayo La crisis de México, que todos los hombres de la Revolución mexicana, sin excepción alguna, habían estado por debajo de las exigencias de ella.

La destrucción de la legitimidad de los gobiernos priistas está escrita en la cardiografía de sus crisis sexenales de finanzas públicas: 1976, 1982, 1987, 1994-1995. En el año 2000 el PRI perdió la presidencia.

La crisis de 1982 marca el inicio de lo que será la gran transformación política de fines del siglo XX. Esa transformación tiene el rostro de la democracia en el ámbito político y del neoliberalismo en el económico.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such points were everywhere. They were pervasive. In systems like the weather, sensitive dependence on initial conditions was an inescapable consequence of the way small scales intertwined with large.

In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such points were everywhere. They were pervasive.

In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes.

It was soon plain to the climatologist that his host's knowledge of the global crisis was wider ranging: Poggs had conducted detailed studies of every disaster.

Spiritual crises happen to us every day. Most of them are sufficiently low grade, devoid of enduring consequences, so we pay no attention and keep on rolling. A spiritual crisis occurs when our identity, our roles, our values, or our road map are substantially called into question, prove ineffective, or are overwhelmed by experience that cannot be contained by our understandings of self and world.

The turbulence of the Middle Passage may resemble a psychotic break wherein the person acts crazy or with draws from others. If we realize that the assumptions by which the person has lived his or her life are collapsing, that the assembled strategies of the provisional personality are decompensating, that a world-view is falling apart, then the thrashing about is understandable.

In crisis, the Old Army maxim ran, seek refuge in anonymity.

It is an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god.