Crisis Quotes - Page 23

• The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

  Alex Gibney

  Sex, Police, Catholic

  Source: deadline.com

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• I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.

  Paul Bettany

  Moving, Refugee Crisis, Humanity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• [Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

  Harry Reid

  Looks, Social, Stage

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• The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

  J. William Fulbright

  Warning, Young, Protest

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• Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Problem, Claims, Paradigm

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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• In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical injustice . . . Until this is recognized, discussion of the Middle East crisis cannot even begin.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Historical, Middle East

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? : Reflections on Justice and Nationhood”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands.
  It is as simple as that.
  It is the rich who are making the world poorer.
  Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.

  Petra Kelly

  Struggle, Simple, Land

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• The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

  Lester R. Brown

  Country, Government, Causes

  "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization" by Lester R. Brown, www.scientificamerican.com. May 2009.

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• Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Made, Scapegoat

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• My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

  Jamie Dimon

  Daughter, Home, School

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• The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Surprise, Economic, Economic Crisis

  Joseph Stiglitz (2015). “Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy”, p.24, Penguin UK

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• We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

  Alan Greenspan

  Two, Looks, Common

  "The World Today" with Sue Lannin, www.abc.net.au. September 10, 2009.

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• By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.

  Paul Krugman

  Done, Facts, Financial

  "The Joy of Sachs". www.nytimes.com. July 16, 2009.

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• When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Night, People

  Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.

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• There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

  Paul Krugman

  Atheist, Foxholes, Libertarian

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• The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Retrospect, World

  "Greenspan on the Economy: Double Ouch" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. March 17, 2008.

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• No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

  Thomas Huxley

  Helping

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

  Alan Greenspan

  Running, Financial, Finance

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• While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.

  Bruce Lee

  Emotional, Giving, Profound

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• Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Political, Groups

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• Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Government, Overcoming, Tasks

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• The world system is coming to the structural crisis

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  World

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• That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.

  Steve Eisman

  Wall, Rip, Years

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• Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

  William Easterly

  Able, Economist

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• At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.

  Blake Morrison

  Writing, Grieving, Long

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