Crises Quotes

“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.”
― James Kelman

“The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.”
― Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

“I've always been proud of how much my daughter cared about the world. After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until another ice shelf collapsed or another animal went extinct. Everything is connected, she’d say. And I’d tell her, You’re only one person and you only have one life.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“Crises often come with hidden opportunities. When we approach crises with this awareness, we can look for the opportunities and then leverage them.

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― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The issue of race, however, has been with us since our earliest beginnings as a nation. I believe it is even deeper and sharper than the other points of contention. It has bred fears, myths, and violence over centuries. It is the source of dark and dangerous irrationality, a current of social pathology running through our history and dimming our brighter achievements.

Most of the time the reservoir of racism remains stagnant. But--and this has been true historically for most societies--when major economic, social, or political crises arise, the backwaters are stirred and latent racial hostility comes to the surface. Scapegoats must be found, simple targets substituted for complex problems. The frustration and insecurity generated by these problems find an outlet in notions of racial superiority and inferiority.”
― Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions. But events on the same scale, or nearly so, no longer seem to have that power; moneyed interests may have become too entrenched, elites too self-seeking, institutions too feeble, and the public too polarized and passive for the country to be shocked into fundamental change.”
― George Packer

“—but Mahler stood up with a groan while the nurse screamed at him, ‘You’ve got to help me! Please!’

He couldn’t. Not right now. Had to see what was going on. Shamed, he staggered away to the autopsy room; the photographer who takes pictures of the famine victims, goes back to the hotel room and drinks to assuage his guilt.

Photographs…the camera…”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Handling the Undead

“All of us are in two stories at the same time," said the sandwich lady. "Life and Times. There is our own personal story, and the bigger story of what's happening around us. When both are in trouble simultaneously, when the crisis inside you intersects with the crisis outside you, things get a little crazy.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“Crisis management involves anticipating potential crises, developing response plans, and establishing clear communication channels to effectively address stakeholder concerns and mitigate reputational damage.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., The Virtuous Boardroom: How Ethical Corporate Governance Can Cultivate Company Success

“We must have the confident that the circumstance will change.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Fortunately, history does not pose problems without eventually producing solutions. The disenchanted, the disadvantaged and the disinherited seem, at times of deep crisis, to summon up some sort of genius that enables them to perceive and capture the appropriate weapons to carve out their destiny.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Young people are being instigated to create ruckus on the streets by middle-aged people on social-media trying to find some purpose to fill the emptiness of their midlife crises.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Keep calm in crises.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Be calm in crises.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Christian's 911 is the name of Jesus.”
― Marnie Swedberg, Flow Through Vessel: How to Master the Habit of Letting God Flow Through You

“During lockdown, we are surely locked but not down. Stay inspired.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi, Dr Prem's Guide - Medical Tourism: Comprehensive Patient and Business Guide on Medical Tourism

“Major crises impose sweeping changes.”
― Prof.Salam Al Shereida

“Today’s crises are tomorrow’s stories, and it’s your story. Decide what acts you wish to portray.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Mindfulness builds calmness, a more powerful contagion to beat crises.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“There is no longer any denying that this country is in the throes of a historic national crisis. Its ramifications are so vast and frightening that even now, shocked into numbness and disbelief, the American people have not yet fully grasped what is happening to them.

The grim data are clear enough and still coming in. Since this summer began, thirty of our cities, big and small, have been wracked by racial dis-order; scores of citizens, almost all of them black, have been killed, thousands injured, and even more arrested. Property damage has exceeded a billion dollars; total income loss is incalculable.

As a people, we are not unaccustomed to violence. Frontier lawlessness, Southern vigilante-ism, Chicago gangsterism : these are images and themes embedded in the American tradition. We have only just lost a President to an assassin's bullet. But, having escaped the bombs of two world wars, we are not familiar with the horror of burned-out buildings, smoking rubble, tanks in our streets, the blasts of Molotov cocktails, the ring of snipers' bullets from rooftops. Today we look at sections of Detroit and think of war-torn Berlin. We see rampaging, looting mobs and think of the unstable politics of underdeveloped countries. A nation's identity has been overturned.

In our own history we can find no precedent in this century for the massive destruction the past three years have brought to our cities—no precedent since the Civil War. But the greatest toll is not in property damage or even in lives lost. Nor is the greatest danger that the violence will go on in-definitely, any more than the Civil War did. It is that the aftermath of that war will be repeated, that as in the Compromise of 1877 the country will turn its back on the Negro, on the root causes of his discontent, on its own democratic future.”
― Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“What stops people from thinking ahead and getting ready for the possibility of crisis? The majority of people surely understand the importance of preparation…”
― Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

“By keeping enough cash to cover at least one month of your typical spending, you’ve created enough liquidity to weather every crisis situation that has occurred so far in modern history.”
― Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

“If society sees a crisis, then there is one… even if there’s not.”
― Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

“I have also read that the Pox was caused by accidentally coinciding climatic, economic, and sociological crises. It would be more honest to say that the Pox was caused by our own refusal to deal with obvious problems in those areas. We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises. I have heard people deny this, but I was born in 1970. I have seen enough to know that it is true. I have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive. I have watched as convenience, profit, and inertia excused greater and more dangerous environmental degradation. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Crises shapes the character of a man.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The dingo’s got my baby’.
It’s a statement of fact.
And it’s very clear.
I know now that it’s considered too clear.
Apparently it would have been more believable if I had
choked, hysterical.
‘In the tent … a … a … get out …’
Oh, I know what they would have liked,
‘Get away from her,
Get away, you,
Get away from my baby’.
They wouldn’t have made fun of that.
‘Oh God, Oh God, Oh God!’
Or just a blood-curdling scream
and instant tears.
But that’s not what I do
that’s not going to help
I thought of the baby not myself
I didn’t get emotional or hysterical
because I wasn’t thinking of myself
I was thinking there might still be a chance
so I give the news as clearly and precisely as I can,
‘A dingo’s got my baby’.
So that they don’t have to waste time on
‘What is it? What’s happened? What’s wrong?’
I just screwed it all up into what’s happened
and how and the race to fix it.
Because you’re in it
it's happening
and she’s gone
and you can’t undo it
and you can’t unlose her
and you can’t for a moment
indulge your feelings
so you yell,
‘The dingo’s got my baby!’
And that’s where it begins.”
― Alana Valentine, Letters to Lindy

“A burst pipe can be fixed with practical knowledge, materials, working hands and working will. For other crises – the kind not amenable to immediate and practical solution, the kind before which a person may feel almost entirely powerless – what’s needed is something else, something that lives in art, story, music, myth, poems. Call it company; call it caliper; call it compass.”
― Jane Hirshfield

“Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular and we prefer the “out of sight, out of mind” escape. But there comes a time when issues must be recognized as issues — and resolved. The democratic way of life is at stake. You cannot meet today’s crisis tomorrow. You cannot pick and choose when and what you will do at your personal convenience. You cannot dawdle with history.

We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals

“To face the days ahead we must ask two questions: first, "Where are we?" and second, "Where do we go from here?" We Americans seem to have forgotten where we came from, we don't know where we are, and we fear where we may be going. We are a scene of frenetic fears, confusion, and madness. Scared New World.

Life has become a catalogue of crises: the Urban Crisis, the Race Crisis, the Campus Crisis, the Poverty Crisis, the World Crisis, the Crisis of a Free and Open Society, and underneath it all our personal crises of whether to live or drop out. We are bombarded with so-called studies and reports on the consequences of urbanization, the population explosion, the changing character of our educational system, our values, our family life, our relationships with one another, or rather our lack of relationships, the ever increasing alienation of the individual from his society, his inability to act on those issues that are vital to him, his family, and his community.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals