Crisis Quotes - Page 25

• We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, War, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Issues, Pressure

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• During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Political, Democracy

  "Manufacturing Consent". Noam Chomsky's Lecture at the University of Wisconsin in in Madison, Wisconsin, March 15, 1989.

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• The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Identity, Migration, Groups

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• I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Games, Watches, News

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.42, Melville House

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• I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Rights, Law, Doubt

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• The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

  Phil Collins

  Keys, Humanity, Intuition

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• Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.

  Peter Yarrow

  Song, Mean, Voice

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• We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

  Kofi Annan

  Hardest Hit, Needs, Financial

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• Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

  Christine Lagarde

  Social Unrest, Two, Risk

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• Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Opportunity, Danger, Salvation

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• Frequently we're asked to come in when the Tao is conflict and crisis. We encourage people to let that Tao happen and not repress it. Especially in new age circles, people just hate conflict and try to repress it.

  Arnold Mindell

  Hate, Circles, People

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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• Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

  John Bolton

  National Security, Barack, Security

  "John Bolton CPAC Speech Lambasts Obama". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.

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• In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Identity, Depth

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• There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

  Ethel Waters

  Battle, Spunk, Cry

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• Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Wise, Wall, Cutting

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• The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical

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• The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

  Dalai Lama

  Ambition, Weakness, Want

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• We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

  J. C. Watts

  California, Energy, Democrat

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• My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

  Garrison Keillor

  Knowing, Facts, Ability

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• Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

  James M. Kouzes

  Leader, Times Of Crisis

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• The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

  Ezra Klein

  Sacrifice, Political, Trading

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• The frequency of divorce is extremely high after airplane hijackings. They're like crisis situations where suddenly you see a side of your partner that makes you think, "I don't want to continue living with this person anymore."

  Ruben Ostlund

  Airplane, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

  Ruben Ostlund

  Men, Ability, Situation

  Source: collider.com

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