619 Quotes About Crisis

In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

What is a smile but proof that we have forgotten truth.

Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

I wake up and look at that bridge, try to count the red taillights I see heading east every morning, a kind of rosary as I pray for another crisis to dwarf the one defining us right now.

The seriousness of being part of Operation Desert Storm-the first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War- was never lost upon us.