Quotes on Crisis

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.

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Incompetence is the true crisis.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.