“Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.” KnowsWarCountryGovernmentLibertyCrisisPermanentAgencyJustifyCentral Government Author:Aldous Huxley
“Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.” PeopleMeanIdeasProblemPoliticalMoralDemocracyIssuesPolicyClaimsCrisisRevolutionaryAgencyGovernanceDemocracies HaveRevolutionary Ideas Author:Bill Moyers
“Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.” LightFireToo MuchPoliticianPicksCrisisCreditDebtConsumersAgencyIngredientsVillainBankersRatingYour FavoriteRegulatorsOverzealous Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin
“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
“Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.” GovernmentResponsibilityLeaderAcceptingRolesPoliticianCrisisInstitutionsBlindFinancialAgencyOfficialsRatingRegulatorsGovernment OfficialsSpeculatorsFinancial Institutions Author:Seth Klarman
“If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly selfish, and we come to think of God as a repairman or a service agency to help us only in our emergencies. We should remember the Most High day and night-always-not only at times when all other assistance has failed and we desperately need help.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldHelpingRememberNightPrayerCryCrisisSelfishAgencyAssistanceEmergenciesDay And NightNeed HelpTimes Of Crisis Author:Howard W. Hunter
“The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding the store during the financial crisis and every one of them was asleep at the switch.” PeoplePoliticalClassCasesFiveFailingTwentiesCrisisFinancialStoresSupposed To BeClassicAgencyTwenty FiveFinancial Crisis Author:Carly Fiorina