“No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.” MenFoundJesusLordGoneCrisis Book:The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God Source: The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God
“American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.” GoneCrisisVariousOilDependence Author:Bill Gates
“Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsMeanSeemsWould BePastUsedRealizingGoneClearModernFineAnxietyCrisisNotionDelusionNostalgicCrackedFluxMalaiseModern Family Author:Stephanie Coontz
“That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.” PeopleYearsPersonsBigsJusticeGoneStreetsWallConscienceBuiltCrisisFirmCastlesRip Author:Steve Eisman
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.” NeedsShouldYearsTwoDoneBigsGovernmentOrderCommunityGoneFiveFailingSolutionsYears AgoProgramShould HaveCrisisDemocratReformFrankMacsMaeCorrupt GovernmentDodd Frank Author:Carly Fiorina
“All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that.” PeopleWellsHas BeensStillsGovernmentPoorDealsGoneRichWorstTrumpHappeningsCapitalismAspectCrisisPrisonFinancialPostsFallenStatus QuoGet RichFinancial CrisisReckoningBlokes Author:Alastair Campbell
“The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.” YearsWarDoneThreeGoneDemocracyMovementCrisisMajorityVietnamThree YearsAntiwarVietnam War Author:Bill Ayers
“It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has, and that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.” WayYearsBelieveMeanDoeHardReasonCommunityJusticeCitiesGoneBloodFrontsTearsHard WorkCrisisTablesCastsEightReformDepartmentAddressesSweatSessionMayorsSweat And TearsBlood Sweat And Tears Author:Al Sharpton
“The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had.” WayTryingChildrenWarPoliticalSidesGoneRichComedyCrazyMembersTragedyOur ChildrenCrisisHorribleGreekOur FamilyYour ChildrenFull LifeGreek TragedyTragedy And ComedyGone CrazyHorrible Experience Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.” PeopleWantGivingYearsLongTwoHomeRememberWealthPovertyGoneEconomicBuildingProjectsCrisisCome UpRemoveTwo YearsHospitalsWipePhilippinesRemember MeMarcosEconomic Crisis Author:Imelda Marcos
“Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.” TwoUseFormEnergyEasyGonePolicyProductsDevelopmentCrisisOilDecadesIdeologyConservationAdequateFree MarketRelianceTransportationRenewable EnergyGasolinePetroleumEnergy PolicyEnergy ConservationEnergy UseNo EnergyPublic TransportationEnergy Crisis Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
“We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.” HumansStoriesAgeGoneCrisisSchemesEcologicalEcological Crisis Author:William E. Rees
“Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.” YearsThreeGoneCrisisForgivingFinancialExecutivesJailFraudThree YearsPointingForgive MeHorrificFinancial Crisis Author:Charles Ferguson