- Cure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crisis Quotes
Lines written from the middle of hard times.
The quotes collected here range from reflections on historic struggles for freedom to commentary on financial downturns and the pressures facing young people today. Together they show a crisis as both a breaking point and, sometimes, a starting point. See also Danger for a related mood.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet and nationalist Adam Mickiewicz declared that independence would come only with great sacrifice. Ever since, this myth of the martyr, or messianic victim, has emerged during times of national crisis.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I get drawn on the subject of race, it’s too close to home for me and I can’t articulate what I’m trying to get across.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're biking more and walking more, you're going to be happier and healthier. And you'll probably feel better if you take out less garbage, as most of us feel pretty crappy about that. But I don't think we can mistake those acts for doing what it takes to address a crisis at a global level.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the greatest and last major crisis before 1836, the panic of 1819 holds considerable interest for the study of business cycles and for the present day. It was an economy in transition, as it were, to a state where business cycles as we know them would develop.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market at home. The inflationists, on the other hand, stressed the shortage of money capital available to manufacturers as a cause of the crisis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020