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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
- Discredit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
- Nov 07, 2020
In times of crisis, the world looks to Britain not just for our work on the ground, but also for our leadership.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is a parliamentarian crisis, the only solution in a democracy is early elections.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Manhattan, raised in Queens, went to high school and college in Brooklyn. My father was a city cop for over 30 years. To me, New York values are being patriotic, being strong, not panicking when there's a crisis, and trying to help each other out.
- Delivery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.
- Discourse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The discourse of sovereignty is a relative one when a crisis has become a global crisis.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
- Inaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cyprus Financial Crisis was a devastating blow to Cypriots and halted their banking system. Banks closed for two weeks to prevent a banking panic. When they reopened, capital controls were placed on the people's money, and customers were met by armed guards at the branches.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020