“Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.” WorldWarHumanitySocialEconomicColdCrisisPopulationScalesErasPostsCold WarRapidsUnprecedentedWorld Population Author:Michel Chossudovsky
“Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.” WorldWarEconomicColdCrisisSeedsCapitalistCold WarClashMarxistEconomic Systems Author:Joseph Stalin
“You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.” KnowsWorldLooksWarNextPresidentClearColdBattleThirdsRegardCrisisFollowingVietnamCold WarCubaThird WorldViennaPresident KennedyJack Kennedy Author:Alexander Haig
“There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.” WorldImportantWarIssuesColdCrisisThreatGlobal WarmingPigsCold WarImportant IssuesBay Of Pigs Author:Simon Beaufoy
“You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan - I was 12 when he was murdered - but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president. Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.” ThinkingImportantWarSoulPresidentChangedColdCrisisMovedHistorianCold WarTenureTruman Author:Gene Weingarten
“It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” MomentsBodyPainLife IsFightingUniverseEnemyStruggleIssuesColdCrisisForgottenHungerTeethShipsTortureStomachChamberBattlefieldsSinkingSourFrightSleeplessness Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four
“The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.” WorldWarOrderUnitedColdGunCrisisIraqNew WorldReverseCold WarGun ControlConquestAdversariesNew World OrderSuperpowerWorld OrderPersianForgedKuwaitPersian Gulf Author:George H. W. Bush
“I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...” ThinkingKnowsMenWayWholePastFacesRoomsColdBirdCrisisSatGrayFrozenChillDrowningBeggarWhipsNamelessFilth Book:The Art of Eating Source: The Art of Eating
“Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace.” IfsWorldWarFightingShareColdCrisisCold WarPretext Author:Thomas Merton