Quotes About Crisis

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

I lived on the West Coast my entire life and I've seen first hand how the homeless crisis is spiraling out of control in cities like Seattle and Portland and Los Angeles.

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

Unless confronted by an immediate, visible, or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

There's always an opportunity with crisis. Just as it forces an individual to look inside himself, it forces a company to reexamine its policies and practices.

Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Pray for the people of West Africa. You cannot be apathetic towards people for whom you are earnestly praying.

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

There's nothing like getting caught flat-footed in an emergency to convince us to better prepare for the next one.