619 Quotes About Crisis

In the prism of faith, every crisis looks shallow.

The follies that produced the loss of American virtue following Vietnam begin with continuous overreacting, in the invention of endangered national security, the invention of vital interest, the invention of a commitment which rapidly assumed a life of its own .

In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent.

Dicen los chinos que crisis es peligro más oportunidad.

She needs life to be no bigger or harder to solve than the stuff she edits for the magazine. What would happen if a real crisis occurred, someone got cancer or a brain tumor or something? I think she'd handle it by reducing it to editorial size, denying its real scope and consequences, and telling herself that she's being practical by not getting overwhelmed.

Mientras vas cambiando de edad, vas cambiando de posición en El Mapa de la Autoestima como el sol que se mueve en el cielo mientras avanza el día. La crisis viene cada vez que se pasa una década en la vida, porque las mismas hazañas que antes sostenían tu orgullo y tu prestigio ya no tienen el mismo poder.

Take them off!” I told him, grabbing the front of his jeans. “Take everything off!”“I’m trying!”“Try harder!

The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.