Crisis Quotes - Page 35

• When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

  Milton Friedman

  Ideas, Floating, Times Of Crisis

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• Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Silence, Doe, Needs

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• Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Direct Action, Issues, Creative

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.

  Michael Ruse

  Religious, Lying, Stories

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• More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.

  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

  Military, Development, Levels

  Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.

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• The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

  Ike Skelton

  Army, Iran, Korea

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• The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.

  James Hillman

  Self, Play, Mind

  James Hillman (1983). “Healing fiction”

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• A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Self, Age, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.247, North Atlantic Books

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• We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.

  Kenneth P. Green

  Climate, Authority, Grows

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• Crisis and my experience of Punk Rock in Britain/Europe was anything and everything but "fun" and this sort of idea comes from people who were either not there at the time, or were and have an axe of some kind or another to grind about their own experiences with Crisis. The years between 1977 and 1980 were some of the hardest of my Life and they certainly contributed to Tony and I wanting to destroy the group in 1980 and head for sunnier pastures artistically, culturally, and whatever else we could find.

  Douglas Pearce

  Fun, Rocks, Years

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• I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.

  Emily Haines

  New York, People, Wish

  "Taking Measurements". Interview with Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Growth, Return

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad fact is that I can look at your zip code and tell whether you're going to get a good education. That's not fair. And secondly, I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• I'd say imagine that you wake up one morning when you're going through a midlife crisis. You're getting divorced. Your kids won't speak to you. Their faces are covered with acne, and you have to decide why you should get out of bed. That's the career you should pick. The one that keeps you going no matter what, even if your life is falling apart. That's how I feel about my career.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Morning, Fall, Kids

  "Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The “The African Americans” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.

  Kool Keith

  Trying, Sound, Different

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• In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Needs, Way

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.466, Library of America

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• One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.

  Noam Chomsky

  Interesting, Democracy, Too Much

  "Noam Chomsky on 1968". www.newstatesman.com. May 8, 2008.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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