Crisis Quotes
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In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
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More Crisis Quotes
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
henry kissinger— As quoted in The New York Times Magazine (1 June 1969)
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means what it bestows on us the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.
bill moyers— "The Power of Democracy", speech accepting the Public Intellectual Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (7 February 2007), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 92
This was the first time WND had found a major intellectual leader behind the push to integrate North America suggesting that a crisis of 9-11 proportions might be just what was needed to advance the process toward establishing a North American Union and the amero.
jerome corsi— "North American Union leader says merger just crisis away", WorldNetDaily (2006-12-15)
In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.
amelia earhart— p. 70 (Last Flight (1937))
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism , and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.
e. o. wilson— Wilson cites Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974) as a reference here
It is exciting to have a real crisis onyour hands, when you have spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment.
— 1982 Of the Falklands conflict. Speech to the Scottish Conservative Party Conference,14 May.
In a cruel irony, speculators - rather then elected politicians - are the shots on crisis management. In an absurd logic, those who foster financial turbulence have been invited by the G7 Finance ministers to identify policies which attenuate financial turbulence.
michel chossudovsky— Economic Warfare, Chapter 21, p. 327
“The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.”
nigel farage— Segment from an article in the New York Times newspaper, 18 May 2012.
— Can Europe be saved? Should it?
Much of the securitization took the form of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) with senior credit tranches certified by rating agencies as AAA. It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that characterized the crisis.
Alan Greenspan— "Epilogue", p. 512
I am sometimes also asked whether the October crisis taught me anything about the art of governing, or about the means that were at my disposal for defusing the crisis. First of all, it taught me that you can be the prescient futurologist in the world, you can lay out the best-made plans and define your priorities with the utmost care, but if you show yourself to be incapable of managing a crisis when it arises, you will lose your right to govern and the whole thing will blow up in your face.
pierre trudeau— Part 2, 1968 - 1974 Power And Responsibility, p. 149-150
My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.
al gore— Academy Award acceptance speech (21 February 2007)
Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we’ve seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won’t be tolerated.
chuck grassley— Quoted in "Congress Targets Mortgage Fraud: Justice for Victims, Jail for the Guilty," Tri-State Defender (2009-02-12)
Reckless people have deluded themselves that this was a subprime crisis. But we have problems with credit-card debt, student-loan debt, auto loans, commercial real estate loans, home-equity loans, corporate debt and loans that financed leveraged buyouts... We have a subprime financial system, not a subprime mortgage market.
nouriel roubini— Quoted in Stephen Mihm, "Dr. Doom," The New York Times (2008-08-15)
In periods of economic upheaval, in periods of economic crisis, wealth is not destroyed, it is merely transferred.
— Larry Bates, in The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America (1998)
There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.
— Nelson A. Rockefeller, letter to Mayor John V. Lindsay (April 24, 1971), reported in The New York Times (April 25, 1971), p. 69. The letter concerned New York City's financial problems.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink fromtheservice of his country; but hethat standsit now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
thomas paine— 1776 The Crisis, introduction, Dec.
We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.
tony benn— HC Deb, 23 October 2000, Col 12, cited in Adam Tomkins, "What is Parliament for?" in Bamforth N. and Leyland P. (eds.), Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution, Oxford, Hart (2003, p. 53).
In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.
Paul Claudel— Quoted by Claud Cockburn, In Time of Trouble (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956) p. 264.
— Remark to a party of American officials invited to the French Embassy, as the Hoover Moratorium was being agreed in 1931.
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
jim elliot— Journal excerpt from Shadow of the Almighty (1989) by Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot, Summer 1948
This is a crisis that was caused by people, white with blue eyes. And before the crisis they looked as if they knew everything about economics.
luiz inácio lula da silva— At a 2009 G-20 London Summit in March 2009.
— Financial crisis 'caused by white men with blue eyes, by Andrew Grice, The Independent, 27 March 2009
Each crisis brings its word and deed.
john greenleaf whittier— The lost Occasion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
warren farrell— p. 44. (Part 1: The Myth of Male Power)
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.
Clement Greenberg— "The Plight of Culture" (1953), pp. 31-32
"Life is like a sewer what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.
tom lehrer— Introduction to "We Will All Go Together When We Go"
(During the Italian crisis, about the proposal of replacing Silvio Berlusconi with Angelino Alfano, as the new Prime Minister of Italy ) Replacing Berlusconi with one of his servile lackeys is unacceptable. Italy needs a credible government run by a respected & competent leader (2011-11-08
nouriel roubini— Quoted in: Italy crisis - Live, BBC.co.uk)
Never waste a crisis. It can be turned to joyful transformation .
— Rahm Israel Emanuel, from an article in the New York Times (March 17th 2009).
Twenty-five years ago we [Poland] were eastern Europe. When we joined Nato and the EU, we became central Europe. Now, because of our resilience in the face of the financial crisis, we are northern Europe.
— Rados?aw Sikorski
— Cienski, Jan (2011-12-13). "Economy: pole position". Financial Times. Retrieved on 2013-03-28.
"There aren't many things I don't want to experience in life, but the sensual caress of a parent going through mid-life crisis is one of them." "There are only three reasons you should ever be this delighted about anything, and all of them involve you being a hot chick, meeting me, and lube." "I've only had one dream in my life with kids in it that didn't involve me gnawing my feet off, and it had to do with kids doing my laundry."
— 9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous stock photo models.
