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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

Nov 07, 2020

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

Quotes by Gary Wolf

Past
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Nov 07, 2020

Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

Politics
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Nov 07, 2020

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

Quotes by Gary Bauer

Nov 07, 2020

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

Quotes by Gail Collins

Every Day
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Nov 07, 2020

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

Quotes by Gabe Paul

Calm
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Nov 07, 2020

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Quotes by Franklin P. Jones

Nov 07, 2020

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

Quotes by Frans Lanting

Nov 07, 2020

If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich and poor have increased, and sometimes hugely.

Quotes by Frans Timmermans

Nov 07, 2020

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

Quotes by Frank Shorter

How
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Nov 07, 2020

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Quotes by Frank Auerbach

End
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Nov 07, 2020

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.

Quotes by Francois Hollande

Ensure
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Nov 07, 2020

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.

Quotes by Francois Hollande

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

Quotes by Francis Collins

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

Quotes by Flavor Flav

Nov 07, 2020

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Detente
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Nov 07, 2020

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Impossible
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Nov 07, 2020

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Busy
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Nov 07, 2020

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

Quotes by Fiona McIntosh

Government
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Nov 07, 2020

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

Humanitarian
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Nov 07, 2020

The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

Quotes by Federica Mogherini

Whether the subject is an economy, a generation, or a single difficult year, these lines treat crisis as something to get through rather than something to fear outright. Related pages include Collapse and Breakdown.

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