Quotes About Crisis

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

The root of identity crises: we seem to know a lot about ourselves, but we can't tell who we are. Realize your self!

Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.

It's almost been worth this depression to find out how little our big men know.

We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn't until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

he often did at a moment of great crisis, Arnold threw a party for the congressmen in the mansion

When the destinies of the world are at stake, there comes a point at which private esteem and admiration must give way to the sense of public duty.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold...

Second, he is credited with almost single-handedly devising the financial rescue package that saved New York City from bankruptcy in 1975, standing tall against President Gerald Ford and his incendiary refusal to help.

was certainly responsible for a much larger share of world trade than any comparable zone and the weight of its economic power even reached Mexico, whose textile manufacture suffered a crisis of 'de-industrialisation' due to Indian cloth

a logical man must behave in a crisis as if his calculated risk were indeed a certainty Ã¢â'¬Â¦

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Just then things weren't going so well in my life. My business was precariously perched on the brink of bankruptcy, my anemic love life was the stuff of a Sartre treatise – Being with Nothingness – my car could use a tune-up, my apartment could use a scrubbing, my body could use some exercise, though who would give it that was a mystery to me. I was too young to feel old, and yet there it was, the despair of middle age, hanging around my neck like a noose.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.