Quotes About Crisis

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.

Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?