“However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.” CertainEnemyViolenceActivityEssentialsDegreesMassCrisisStrikesScalesResistanceCombinationRevolutionaryCampsProvokingLarge Scale Author:Joe Slovo
“Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.” KnowsWorldWayCertainWorkKnowledgePossibilityEssentialsCrisisWorkersCertain Knowledge Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.” StepsBecomingEssentialsCrisisMethodEnvironmentalSubstanceChemicalsPollutionTestingAdequateHazardsInvitingEnvironmental Crisis Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971
“One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.” WorldUseTodaySpiritPrayerForgetWonderMysteryAwarenessBrokenEssentialsApproachMajorsToolsTragedyCrisisOur TimeOur WorldWord Of GodReverenceSensitivitySymptomsVesselWorld TodayPrerequisites Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird” FirstsArtBigsTermCuttingEconomicEssentialsBirdCrisisObjectivesBudgetsFundingEconomic CrisisShort SightedBudget CutsBig Bird Author:Julia Stiles
“When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.” PeopleWellsMadeInterestPaySawsStreetsNew YorkWallCallingEssentialsCrisisFinancialFinanceSenatorsCeoClosingMortgageLoopholesPrincipledFinancial SystemMain StreetMortgage Crisis Author:Hillary Clinton
“That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.” FeltEconomicPolicyEssentialsCrisisAdministrationBarackExceptionEconomic Policy Author:Judy Woodruff
“The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we'll dawdle.” NeedsHumansEssentialsCrisisThreatClimatePeril Author:Bill McKibben
“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.” PeopleWorldWellsRealizingSituationStruggleChildhoodDangerEssentialsAppreciateCrisisRaisedExcitementHouseholdShelterAdulthoodCraveCalmnessBenevolenceUnstableAccommodate Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible.” WholeFormHumanitySituationImpossibleLimitsEssentialsSolutionsCrisisStructureDevelopingPushingPaceStrainTippingTipping PointPace Of ChangeImpossible Becomes Possible Author:Franz Josef Radermacher
“Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task” OpportunityForceBusinessRiskEssentialsEconomicsTasksManagementCrisisClimate Author:Richard Branson
“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.” PeopleDiesEnergyIndustryEssentialsSickCrisisFundamentalsFaultsEnvironmentalProductionsAriseAgricultureTransportationEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner
“I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.” BelieveI BelieveConsciousnessEssentialsToolsCrisis Author:Stanislav Grof
“The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.” MenDoeChristianPurposeWaitingLordWiseInfluenceAdviceTrustHe ManExerciseEssentialsDifficultyCrisisCalmHard TimesSteadyTrust In GodTough TimesConfidence In GodIntimacy With GodGod Within UsGod Is In ControlTimes Of Crisis Author:Dixon Edward Hoste