“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored.… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“Climate change may be far beyond the concerns of people in the midst of a life-and-death emergency, but it might eventually make… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral… — Arlene Holt Baker Copy Share Image
Leaders may recognize that they are not addressing the real problems, but they rationalize their actions with the argument that they must… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
We've been talking about the Syrian refugee crisis a lot, in the news in the U.K. and possibly the U.S., but it… — Nadine Shah Copy Share Image
Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Banks and investors have poured money into dirty energy and high-carbon for decades. While no single policy is a magic bullet for… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal?… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“You have been offered "the gift of crisis". As Kathleen Norris reminds us, the Greek root of the word crisis is "to… — Glennon Melton Copy Share Image
It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a… — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And, therefore, hold your head high, Herr Stiefel!——Such a crisis as this comes to all of us and will soon be surmounted.… — Frank Wedekind Copy Share Image
There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or… — Brooke Westcott Copy Share Image
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The Department of Energy and our National Labs play a central role in addressing the world's most pressing challenges, including the climate… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she… — Bella Pollen Copy Share Image
I'm super grateful to everybody for this, what we're calling, "The Emergency Session of the Trumpologists."I think, led us all to want… — Susan Glasser Copy Share Image
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system… — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it… — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like… — Q'orianka Kilcher Copy Share Image
