Quotes About Crisis

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

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

In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.