Quotes About Crisis

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Ford to City: Drop Dead.

When fire is cried and danger is neigh, "God and the firemen" is the people's cry; But when 'tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming inMeltdown expected, the wheat is growing thinEngines stop running, but I have no fear'Cause London is drowning and I live by the river

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

All four pillars of democracy have broken down several years back , so no point of trusting any one of them.

Earth is 98 percent full. Please delete anyone you can.

Hannibal ad portas [Hannibal is at the gates]!

Reading about declining owl populations led him to deforestation which led to soil erosion which led to ocean pollution which led to coral bleaching, everything warming, melting, and dying faster than scientists predicted, every system on the planet connected by countless invisible threads to every other:

You'll die of old age, we'll die of climate change.

Yesterday she walked three hours to harvest water lilies from a lake so her kids would have something to eat. And what do our most enlightened leaders suggest we do? Switch to e-billing. Buy three LED bulbs and get a free tote bag. Earth has eight billion people to feed and the extinction rate is a thousand times higher than it was at pre-human levels.

Several times he prepared for suicide, asking his sword bearer to be his executioner.

During one never-to-be-forgotten confrontation over a debt crisis in 493 BC, the entire population withdrew its labor. The plebs evacuated Rome and encamped on a neighboring hill. It was an inspired tactic. The Patricians were left in charge—but of empty streets.

this was the worst crisis of Octavian's career.

I've made some tea,' Judith Matheson said. Of course she had. She was the sort of woman who would always make tea no matter what the crisis. Lose your leg in a hideous industrial accident and she'd be there with a nice cup of Earl Grey.

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks.

When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

The unhoused crisis in our country is a public health emergency, and a moral and policy failure at every level of our government.

What needs to happen in a public health crisis? The federal government must establish a national roadmap with clear goals and evidence-based policy guidance.

By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on mainland Europe. Public opinion and, crucially, the cabinet was deeply divided on whether to intervene or stay out.

Public safety and emergency preparedness is essential.