Crisis Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein Download Open image “The world system is coming to the structural crisis” — Immanuel Wallerstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crisis World
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society… — Franz Josef Radermacher Copy Share Image
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Our world needs to move from managing crises to preventing them in the first place. Too often, the world responds too late and too… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s. It's not… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis... — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes: le politique,… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio,… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Disasters affect every state, and North Carolinians have given our own tax dollars to help neighbors and those in other states in times of… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
