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“We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.”

“The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that you see from people on Wall Street, their dismissal and their almost contempt for the concerns about their culpability in the financial crisis, about the income inequality, shows that they are completely out of touch.”

People Believe Different Shows Pay Rich Streets Wall Taxes Concern Crisis Response Rate Financial Income Inequality Contempt Financial Crisis Income Inequality Dismissal Culpability

Author:Robin Wells

“There is a well-established conviction that the central banks always do what is necessary to keep the system going and then afterwards you then take care of the legal aspects. In a crisis, you simply do not have time to think about such concerns for too long.”

Thinking Wells Long Care Concern Aspect Crisis Conviction Take Care Time To Think Central Banks

Author:George Soros

“When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.”

Men World Focus Stage Illusion Concern Crisis

Book:Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

“What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.”

People Knows Needs Years Ideas Next Imagination Poor Greater Generations Planets Ten Demand Concern Crisis Prepared No Idea Fifty Greater Good

Author:Katherine Paterson

“The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.”

Thinking Way Matter Body Choices Force Difficult Pay Consequence Concern Crisis Best Way Realms Remove Obesity Public Health Alleviate

Author:Radley Balko

“The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.”

World Doe Facts Moving Nations Interest Growing Activity Concern Crisis Provision Unworthy Frivolous Outdoor Activities

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.”

Humans Doe Shows Opinion Serious Creating Concern Scientist Claims Crisis Agree Majority Global Warming Activist Overwhelming Components Surveys Meteorologists

Author:James Taylor

“Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.”

Concern Crisis Climate Obligation Variety

Author:Al Gore

“The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex, long-term problems like the climate crisis. Which brings me to my other major concern - the short-term focus of capitalism. It distorts the allocation of resources and the decision-making processes of companies.”

“More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.”

People Needs Years America Nations Imagination Greater Awareness Concern Years Ago Crisis Raised Math Fifty Lacking Greater Good Math Education Education In America Sputnik

Author:Katherine Paterson

“The real concern is that Iran would do what Pakistan did. Pakistan wanted nuclear weapons, like Iran, purely for defensive reasons - to defend itself against India. The problem was that once Pakistan acquired the weapons, it allowed the country to be more aggressive. So they stepped up their support for the Kashmiri terrorists, and it led very quickly to the Kargil crisis in 2000, which almost sparked a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.”

War Real Country Reason Problem Support Concern Crisis Terrorist Aggressive Nuclear Weapons Nuclear War

Author:Kenneth M. Pollack

“My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.”

People Thinking Facts America Concern Crisis Mediocrity Emergencies Urgency Drifting Sense Of Urgency

Author:Howard Schultz

“The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.”

People Moral Depends Concern Crisis Currents Virtuous Founders Justified Free Society

Author:Ron Paul

“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.”

Source: And the Judges Said&…: Essays

“Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.”

Today Party Security Calling Protect Conflict Concern Crisis Notes Humanitarian Statements Massive Council Civilians Security Council Darfur Ceasefire

Author:Jan Egeland

“All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.”

May Ends Cases Acceptance Words Of Wisdom Battle Normal Research Concern Crisis Candidates Over It Paradigm Emergence

Book:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition