“The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.” MenGivingHumansEndsFormDiesStrongBornConsciousnessEconomicDyingEmotionalBirthPeriodsDemandOptimismCrisisConstantErrorsProsperityExcitedErasExcitementGiantsPessimismInfantVaryLiableHuman ConsciousnessNew EraGravitationElasticityStrong Emotional Author:Arthur Cecil Pigou
“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.” KnowsGivingSometimesDreamCoursesLiteratureKnow HowMankindBirthDespairDepressionCrisisDeeperImmortalityEnjoymentRelativePlunge Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942 Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942
“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.” KnowsChildrenMotherFatherRaceBabyBirthDrugCrisisAgencyPregnantAdoptionHomosexualBirth Mother Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“I think the retirement crisis globally is a major problem. I think it's especially prevalant in countries such as Japan, where immigration is an issue. I think the US is more shielded from it than most countries in the world. It has a higher birth rate than Japan, immigration is tolerated here unlike probably it is in Japan. I don't think it's as big an issue in the US as it is elsewhere in the world.” ThinkingWorldCountryProblemBirthCrisisRateImmigrationRetirementElsewhere Author:Martin Gilbert
“We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's no excusing the lack of moral urgency to do something about this environmental crisis. We see Flint, Michigan, for example, and the attention it's gotten, but what most Americans don't seem to realize is that this lead problem is not confined to just Flint. There are over 3,000 jurisdictions that have twice the lead levels in people's blood than Flint does. We're now seeing more people being exposed to the truth about environmental injustice in our country.” PeopleCountryProblemRealizingAttentionMoralStudyBirthCrisisEnvironmentalRateInjusticeUrgency Author:Cory Booker
“Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.” OrderSocialMoralEffectsBirthCrisisProgressiveRhetoricBreakdownPresentingConcealing Author:Christopher Lasch
“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.” WorldEnergyWaterEnvironmentBirthCrisisClimateSoilOld WorldConvergence Author:Charles Eisenstein