Crisis Quotes - Page 13

• Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

  Andrew Lo

  Reality, Thinking, Events

  "ANDREW LO: I Read 21 Books About The Financial Crisis And They Explained Nothing" by Rob Wile, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2012.

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• President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

  Anthony Romero

  Law, Speaks Out, People

  "ACLU blasts Justice Dept. leaks probe". Anthony Romero's statement in the American Civil Liberties Union letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, www.upi.com. December 30, 2005.

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• There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Real, Principles, Answers

  "Free Press doesn’t mean Free Lunch" by Rick Carnes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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• The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.

  John Noble Wilford

  Maturity, Roots, Space

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• Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

  Ivan Krastev

  Art, Democracies Have, People

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• People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

  Wilma Mankiller

  People, Ordinary, Responsible

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• The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.

  Cornel West

  Humility, Animal, Talking

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Iraq, People

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. February 21, 2007.

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• The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.

  Howard Schultz

  Issues, Perfect, Information

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Miracle, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

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• A crisis unmasks everyone.

  Mason Cooley

  Character

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• We need to make clear that the economic crisis has to be matched by a crisis of ideas. That's the problem, right? The economic crisis is not matched by a crisis of ideas. That's where the war is going to be fought.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Problem, Economic

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• The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  War, Creativity, Thinking

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• The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

  Jay Weatherill

  Two, Issues, Water

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• It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.

  Peter Mayle

  Moving, Laughing, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 25, 2015

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• The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Warrior, Men, Brain

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• Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Being Yourself, Feelings, Looks

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.90, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Incompetence is the true crisis.

  Albert Einstein

  Incompetence

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Evil, Matter

  "Fatum und Geschichte" by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 1862.

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• For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

  Edith Wharton

  Strong, Blood, Years

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2054, Delphi Classics

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• Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

  Ray Romano

  Attitude, Oysters, Identity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to come. Efforts by governments to solve the underlying problems responsible for the crisis have still not gotten very far, and the 'stress tests' that governments have used to encourage optimism about our financial institutions were of questionable thoroughness.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Stress, Believe, Writing

  Robert J. Shiller (2013). “Finance and the Good Society”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• Sometimes you need a major crisis to bring people together.

  Kishore Mahbubani

  Inspiring, People, Together

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• On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

  Jack Rowell

  Player, Rugby, Injury

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• The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heart, Thinking, Acting

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