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Quotes About Crisis

Since that moment one form of crisis has collided with another, and I am no more Stoic now than I was when I opened that ancient book.
~ Zadie Smith
American should read the signs of the times, realize the crisis, and meet it in an American way. Otherwise we are done as a race. Money is God in the older countries. But it should never become God in America. If it does we will make the fall of Rome pale into insignificance.
~ Zane Grey
America must not abdicate its global leadership role in the climate crisis to countries like China.
~ Mazie Hirono
If I don't watch the news in a day, I think the potential for humanity is incredible. But anytime I look at the news, I'm like, 'We're in really big trouble.'
~ Alicia Garza
En las grandes crisis, el corazón se curte o se rompe.
~ Honore de Balzac
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
~ Horace
Se había equivocado? Era terriblemente histérica, pero con rara manifestación desbordante; los nervios desordenados repiqueteaban hacia adentro, y de aquí la súbita tenacidad en un disparate, el brusco abandono de una convicción; y en los prodromos de las crisis, la obstinación creciente, convulsiva, edificándose a grandes bloques de absurdos. Abusaba de la morfina, por angustiosa necesidad y por elegancia.
~ Horacio Quiroga
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
~ Horatio Nelson
The Athenian strategy moves to the top when things are going well. Spartanism grabs the throne when the world is going to hell.
~ Howard Bloom
When we realize, really get to know what stinkers we are, it takes only a little depression to tip the scales in favor of suicide. - Dr. Walter Freeman (62)
~ Unknown
The leveling down of the European man is our greatest danger. This is the prospect that depresses us. Today we see nothing that wants to become greater. We suspect that all goes ever downward, becoming thinner, more sleazy, smarter, cozier, more ordinary, more indifferent. Exactly here lies the crisis. With the fear of man, we have also lost the love of man - reverence for him, hope in him. The human prospect wearies us. What is the current nihilism if it is not that? We are tired of man.
~ Unknown
The Mass Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).
~ Unknown
It is a subject that is taboo unless there is some extraordinary social crisis—such as war—involving the mobilization of all the national resources of the common life to meet it. There is a conspiracy of silence about hatred, its function and its meaning.
~ Howard Thurman
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself.
~ Unknown
We're in some real pretty shit now man! game over, game over.
~ Unknown
The day was not far off when, as the saying goes, if Wall Street sneezed, the rest of the world would catch a cold. And Wall Street had not discovered how to stop itself sneezing.
~ Hugh Brogan
God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before" John Owen
~ Hugh Laurie
The book of Job highlights the theme that God has marvelously designed the universe, the earth, and all its life in such a way as to harmonize ethics and economics. When we humans face a crisis or dilemma that appears to force a choice between ethics and economics, we can be sure God has provided a solution that compromises neither. Through
~ Hugh Ross
The greatest threat to climate change is humanity' Iain Cameron Williams, 2019
~ Unknown
A particularly frightening observation: even if emission levels are reduced, by 2070 Earth will be the hottest it has been in 125,000 years, which means it will be "hotter than it has been for most, if not all, of the time since modern humans emerged as a species 200,000 years ago.
~ Unknown
capitalism demands not only constructed enemies and constructed desires, but also real impending crisis which threatens the human race itself with extinction.
~ Unknown
În timp ce foarte mulÈ›i se temeau pentru soarta celor apropiaÈ›i, suferinÈ›a celorlalÈ›i nu mai conta aÈ™a de mult.
~ Ian Kershaw
rains failed, there were crop failures, people starved. STUDENT: What's that? CLIMATOS: It means that people died because they had no food. STUDENT: What? CLIMATOS: Yes, incredible as it may seem, they had nothing to eat
~ Unknown
when the shit was heading fanwards.
~ Ian Rankin