Best crisis & political Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.”

People Ifs Thinking Want America Political Talking Right Now Crisis Nostalgia Britain Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.”

Humans Reality Happens Political Desire Movement Building Office Crisis Affair Human Life Midst Pregnancy Unwanted Political Movements Office Buildings Unwanted Pregnancy

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.”

“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.”

“The situation in Turkey is extremely troubling. A panic-stricken regime, desperate to divide the Kurdish population from non-Kurds because it feared the rise of the HDP, has helped to create a huge crisis in the country. Can it be ended while Tayyip Erdogan remains in power? I don't think so. Erdogan may not be a "joker," but he is definitely a political plagiarist.”

Thinking Country Political Situation Crisis Desperate

Author:Tariq Ali

“People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by money and see a political crisis. They wonder if they'll ever be able to pay off their student loan or own a house. Given this ecological, political and financial crisis, what they want is a different future. Their fundamental demand is a different regime to provide that future.”

People Different Political House Black Leader Wonder Students Crisis Climate Change Financial Loan Ecological Financial Crisis Black Hole Student Loan

Author:Kalle Lasn

“I have a personal staff that helps me scour the internet and other media for the latest scientific peer-reviewed findings, the latest examples of climate-related extreme weather events, and the latest examples of progress. The world is in the midst of a sustainability revolution that has the scope of the industrial revolution, but with the speed of the digital revolution. That's not enough without new laws and the right kind of political leadership. But it does give us a base from which to build a movement that will save us from the most catastrophic consequences of the climate crisis.”

World Giving Kind Enough Helping Political Progress Revolution Internet Consequence Crisis Speed Help Me Sustainability Industrial Revolution

Author:Al Gore

“For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening in our time. Persistent economic stagnation together with neoliberal austerity has at this point seriously undermined the stability of the liberal-democratic state and thus the political command sector of the capitalist system. This has led to a dangerous resurgence of political movements in the fascist genus, representing an alternative way of managing the state of the capitalist system, opposed to liberal democracy.”

Together Political Democracy Economic Dangerous Capitalism Crisis Stability Capitalist Persistent Stagnation

Author:John Bellamy Foster

“We know under Nebraska there is an underground aquifer that is probably underneath the whole state, but what form does it take? I kind of want to focus on that, for almost political means, because we keep digging more wells. We're not replenishing, and we're having a crisis in water around the world. But how do you visualize it? I don't know, so I know what I want to study.”

World Kind Mean Political Water Study Focus Crisis

Author:Maya Lin

“In the United States, Iran is nothing but a whipping-boy. Few Americans have any real use for Iran. Most of us, what we know and remember about Iran are things like the hostage crisis in 1980, or they think about the Iranian attacks in Lebanon, or on the Khobar Towers. So you don't get a whole lot of political mileage in the United States by going out and advocating better relations with the Iranians.”

Thinking Real Remember Political Relation Crisis Iranian Hostage

Author:Kenneth M. Pollack

“When I talk about an "empathy bank," I don't mean literally opening up a bank and putting in deposits. What I mean is that the more we can, as individuals and as members of a community, empathize with, understand the pain and uncertainty economic crisis causes other people, the more we lay the groundwork for political change.”

People Mean Pain Political Individual Community Economic Empathy Crisis Uncertainty

Author:Sasha Abramsky

“I think I'm most comfortable when I function in a parallel space that's not separate from political reality, but somehow comments on it from a different portal. The crisis in the Middle East has been ongoing and repetitive and I feel solutions on the ground have reached an impasse. It is somehow necessary to change the way we approach commentary on the subject. I do think that erecting a meta-space that functions according to its own autonomous abstractions and logic could be more effective in finding ways of dealing with the problem at hand, than using our standard tools of analysis.”

Thinking Different Problem Reality Political Solutions Logic Crisis Comment Portal Repetitive

Author:Larissa Sansour

“Obviously, Donald Trump won't be impeached or removed so long as the Republicans hold even one House of Congress. And even should they lose both in November of 2018, launching an impeachment - as the Republicans discovered with Bill Clinton - is very dangerous to the impeaching party. Unless you have a highly credible set of extremely damning facts, you turn a constitutional crisis into a political crisis. You rally potential supporters of the impeached president to him. You make his base bigger. So I imagine that he is likely to serve out the full term.”

Long Political House President Term Party Imagine Dangerous Republican Crisis Clinton Imagine That Supporter November

Author:David Frum

“Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.”

Years Ends Political Life Is Community Events Crisis Forests Tribes Ants Life Is Like Political Life Year End

Book:The Writer and the World: Essays

Source: The Writer and the World: Essays

“By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.”

People Political Language Streets Wall Creating Ordinary Crisis Majority Complexes Crowds Ordinary People Urgent Participants Fluent

Author:Matt Taibbi

“This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.”

“On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.”

“I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.”

Men Enough Political Theory Lucky Findings Crisis Caught Forests Communism Maps Discovering Caught Up Marxism Cuba Political Theory Whirlpools

Author:Fidel Castro

“...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.”

People War Shows Political Peace Natural Crisis Tendencies Propaganda Anti War Antiwar Trickery

Author:Robert Higgs

“In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.”

People Political Fighting Lost Solutions Crisis Solve Rely Islamic Opposition Regimes Syria Extremist Legitimacy Assad Isil

Author:Barack Obama

“The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.”

Philosophy Political Poverty Economics Essence Crisis Extremes Extreme Poverty

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.”

“In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.”

World America Political Economic Mankind Hatred Crisis Remains Tension Hoping For The Best Economic Crisis

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.”

Wells Political Values Social Elements Ocean Importance Crisis Filled Structure Chaos Indian Regions Shore Fragile Threatened Hostile Adversaries Sympathetic Arcs Fragmentation

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.”

Trying Political Politics Enjoy Work Crisis Relax Relaxation Recreation

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems.”

“Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.”

“In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.”

“In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.”

War Facts Political Modern Crisis Inevitable Antiwar Approval

Book:Ideas, ideals, and American diplomacy: a history of their growth and interaction

Source: Ideas, ideals, and American diplomacy: a history of their growth and interaction

“After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.”

States Political United Liberty United States Security Crisis Unnecessary Civil Liberties

Author:William J. Brennan

“The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.”

World Way Political Economy Particular Crisis Deeper Swings Political Systems Millennium Hinges

Book:Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief

Source: Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief

“The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.”

Spiritual Political Humanity Opportunity Challenges Levels Consciousness Moral Issues Higher Crisis Climate Lifts Eugenics Higher Level Enviromental Political Issues Enviroment

Author:Al Gore

“When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.”

Real Hands Political Politics Half Issues Environment Exciting Crisis Environmental Political Life Iron Lady Humdrum Falklands

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.”

Political Black Development Crisis Structure Progressive Multiracial

Book:Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader

Source: Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader

“I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.”

People Thinking Important Problem Political Force Lines United Effort Overcoming Crisis Debt Greek Addresses Competitiveness

Author:Lucas Papademos

“The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.”

Whole Government Political Party Concepts Crisis Compromise Inevitable Destructive Thirst Confrontation Political Systems Streaks Gop

Book:The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

Source: The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

“A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.”

World Mean War Political Reading Moral Grace Written Integrity Criticism Crisis Brilliant Contemporary Weed Thinker Masterpiece Inquiry Ideological Iranian Predicaments Tehran Provincialism

Author:Afshin Molavi

Crisis Quotes

Related topics

Crisis Quotes