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
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
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))
“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)
Thank Heaven! the crisis The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last.
edgar allan poe— "For Annie", st. 1 (1849).
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.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
— 1915 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).
Village cricket spread fast through the land.In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watcheach ball a potential crisis.
George Macaulay Trevelyan— Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.
edsger w. dijkstra— Dijkstra (2000) "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" (EWD 1305)
... one of the most detrimental (and least discussed) effects of the crisis in science education in the world today is that we are creating a population increasingly unable to think skeptically about a wide range of issues.
— in Science Education and the Crisis of Gullibility, in an edition by Eric Chaisson, Tae-Chang Kim (1999). The thirteenth labor. CRC Press. p. 71. ISBN 9057005387.
Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
Boris Johnson— "Exams work because they're scary", Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2005, p. 22.
"We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years."
josé luis rodríguez zapatero— In an interview with Spanish national television.
— Source: Zapatero evita respaldar a De la Vega y asume que habrá crisis de Gobierno
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
Alan Bennett— Diary entry for October 13, 1984, pp. 137-138
I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.
al gore— "Al Gore: 'The Assault on Reason' in America" on Things Considered at NPR (25 May 2007)
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis". One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger but recognize the opportunity.
john f. kennedy— Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana (12 April 1959) (see also Chinese word for "crisis")
We mankind stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device our consciousness of the crisis as our unique contribution.
Margaret Mead— p.3 (Continuities in Cultural Evolution, 1964)
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
— Letter to Mary Allen Hulbert Peck (1 August 1909), PWW 19:321.
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.
— Economic Warfare, Chapter 21, p. 327 (The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003))
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.
— Thomas Paine, in his essay, The Crisis, (1777).
