Quotes About Crisis

Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature.

Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

The press lives on disaster.

In politics a week is a very long time.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.