Quotes About Crisis

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

Everything feels like the end of the world, and you can't reason with someone who can't see tomorrow.

Syria was one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

What history had taught him was Amazement. A tremendous amazement that each time those in jeopardy had been so slow in thinking about their safety.

The city of Nîmes itself was short of everything; it was swamped with refugees from Holland, Belgium, and northern France. It had tripled in population.

She walked the edge of the anxiety attack, feeling the shakes and knowing that she either found solid footing now or plunged into the abyss.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late 2008 and early 2009, government officials started seeing visions of the 1930s and turned

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.