Crisis Quotes - Page 31

• Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.

  Bill Maher

  Strong, War, World

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• One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Our World, Broken

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• Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

  Melanie McGrath

  Army, Winter, Government

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• Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.

  Bill Bonner

  Lying, Believe, Simple

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• In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Men, Generosity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.469, Best Books on

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• As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.

  Rod Dreher

  Years, Wrath, Voting

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• My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Assessment, Years, America

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• The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.

  Paul Yingling

  Military, Two, Iraq

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• Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.

  Ahmed Rashid

  War, Opportunity, Years

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• When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

  Tom Hollander

  Spiritual, Doors, Church

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• In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Facts, True Fact

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Religious, War, Political Differences

  "The Devil's Advocate". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1952.

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• In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

  Al Gore

  Order, Democracy, Climate

  "Year Four at SilverDocs: Gore, Scorsese, Jarmusch, Premieres, and More". www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2006.

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• It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Past, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

  Michael Rostovtzeff

  War, Long, Political

  Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff (1928). “A history of the ancient world”

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• Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Successful, Self, People

  Maltz, Maxwell Maltz, M.D. (1987). “Power Slf Img Psch”, Pocket

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• How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Comfort, Times Of Crisis, Use

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• As has been reported, and is unmistakably evident to all but the most naïve, federal employees have been ordered to exploit this crisis, to make the government shutdown as uncomfortable as they can. The White House is actively soliciting complaints from the general public on 'how the government shutdown has affected you.' These testimonies are tools sought for the propaganda kit; the better to agitate with.

  Paul Kengor

  White, Government, House

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• Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.

  Gordon Brown

  Should Have, Years, People

  "'Sometimes it takes a crisis': PM calls for biggest financial overhaul since 1944" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2008.

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• We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Civilization, Challenges, World

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• I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Thinking, Issues, Climate

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I bought a house right before the housing crisis happened. So I paid too much and then I was stuck with it for a long time. So that was sad for me. I was like, "I'd better make a movie about this to get it out of my system."

  Hamish Linklater

  Long, House, Too Much

  Source: screenrant.com

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• As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Children, Years, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

  Moby

  Years, Midlife, Four

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

  Moby

  Midlife, Midlife Crisis, Thrust

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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