Quotes About Crisis

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

We live in a world where over 160 million people are displaced because of climate change or war, and they have no rights and no protection, and not enough countries or people around the world are helping them.

We can prove to the American people that fixing the crisis at our border is more important than scoring political points.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

This is not a time for hereos because nobody will let it happen

You seem to be bankrupt - morally as well as financially

Eventually she had decided to marry for background, and the young pagan from Asheville had gone through a spiritual crisis, joined the Catholic Church, and was now--Monsignor Darcy.

Various studies estimate that somewhere between 70 million and 430 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty over the next few years. The most essential inequality—between the very richest and the poorest humans on the planet—is now growing again and at a rapid rate.

There is a paradoxical feature of pandemics: even though they have come to be named for specific locations, they are decidedly not contained by borders.

As many as 1 million plant and animal species (of 8 million total) are threatened with extinction, some within a few decades.

The top 20 centimeters of soil is all that stands between us and extinction.

The Balkan wars, the Asian financial collapse, the 9/11 attacks, the global financial crisis, and now Covid-19. While they are all different, they have something crucial in common. They are all asymmetric shocks—things that start out small but end up sending seismic waves around the world.

costs of prevention and preparation are minuscule compared to the economic losses caused by an ineffective response to a crisis. More fundamentally, building in resilience creates stability of the most important kind, emotional stability.

to demand collective sacrifice you must offer a social contract that benefits everyone." But, it continued, "today's crisis is laying bare how far many rich societies fall short of this ideal." It declared a need for "radical reforms—reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades.

months. Various studies estimate that somewhere between 70 million and 430 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty over the next few years.

For the twentieth century, the great political debate was about the size and role of government in the economy—the quantity of government. But what seems to have mattered most in this crisis was the quality of government.

Fue la locura financiera, un ciclo autodestructivo de impagos y devaluaciones, la que hizo que Argentina pasara de ser el sexto país más rico del mundo en la década de 1880 a convertirse en un desastre inflacionista en la de 1980.

I realized that a new phase of exile was beginning, that from now on there would be other periods, all different, each with its own anxieties, all shattering and overwhelming, and that I would be changing too, passing from one crisis to the next until I reached the moment of truth, unique and definitive — the day on which I would either stop being an exile and return home, or unavoidably, with sadness and resignation, become an immigrant.

Isto está tudo decadente: já nem decadentes há.

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

I think humanitarians really feel very awkward and embarrassed about marketing, but it really doesn't matter whether a shampoo gets better marketing. It does matter when a famine or a huge crisis is - oh - well, I hate to use the word 'marketed' better but, you know, is publicized in a way that will be more effective.

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. It basically shows us that the end of the road isn't very far away for antibiotics.