“As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.” WellsIdeasMotivationPoorCommonAttitudeQualityEvidenceCrisisEverydayDuesBlockPersistentFear Of FailureShortageVenuesJadedFear Of SuccessPoor QualityLackadaisical Author:Robert Genn
“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.” WellsEnoughCultureSinPoorRichTraditionDifficultyCrisisAcceptedEfficientLeisureVirtuousEfficiencyCompulsionCarrying On Author:Clement Greenberg
“AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.” MenCountryValuesFightingPoorRaceRichLandCallingMen And WomenDignityCrisisAidsBoundariesSparesUrgentRich And Poor Author:Laura Bush
“The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.” TwoAmericaOpportunityNationsPoorRacePovertyRichCarCrisisNeighborRingsDividedAlarmsRich And PoorTwo Nations Author:Arianna Huffington
“The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.” ShowsPoorRiskEconomicCrisisFinancialAnalystsFinancial CrisisPricingGeopoliticalFinancial Risk Author:Nouriel Roubini
“Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.” PeopleWorldWayMadeTodayFacesNationsPoorResultsNumbersToo MuchDependsHigherStandardsIncreaseCrisisMethodHungerHungryLuxuryAcquireAppetiteConsumerismOverconsumptionStandards Of LivingHigher StandardsPursuing Happiness Book:A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.” IfsSeemsTermPoorRichSeeingCapitalismCrisisGapsRich And PoorUnreasonableMarxist Author:Charles Stross
“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.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsIdeasNextImaginationPoorGreaterGenerationsPlanetsTenDemandConcernCrisisPreparedNo IdeaFiftyGreater Good Author:Katherine Paterson
“We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.” WorldTwoSimplePoorPovertyStruggleRichEnvironmentLandResourcesCrisis Author:Petra Kelly
“The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.” CountryGovernmentCausesPoorCrisisThreatStabilityCollapsePoor Countries Author:Lester R. Brown
“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
“On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.” TryingMadeIdeasStoriesUseHandsJobsDecisionPoorNumbersEconomyProductsBenefitsToolsCrisisDebtExperimentsTranslate80sBankingBankersBrazilExcludedBanking SystemDebt Crisis Author:Jacqueline Novogratz
“Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit he won't accept. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter came up with this scheme that resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis. They said it was unfair that poor and minority people didn't have houses, so we're basically gonna give 'em houses. How are we gonna do that? We're going to make the banks loan them money, knowing full well they can't pay it back.” PeopleGivingWellsSaidHousePoorLevelsPayAcceptingKnowingIndustryCrisisBillsClintonProfitBarackMinoritiesEmsSchemesUnfairThey SaidBankingLoanJimmyMortgageCarterMortgage Crisis Author:Rush Limbaugh
“At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.” WorldEnoughMomentsAmericaFilmThreePoorSuccessfulFiveFourEuropeCrisisProductionsOnly In America Author:Sophia Loren
“When the President of the United States attacks a movie star it is undignified and it casts a poor light on the United States of America. When the President of the United States attacks a sitting judge and questions his legitimacy, that actually can lead to a Constitutional crisis.” StatesLightAmericaStarsPresidentPoorUnitedUnited StatesJudgingSittingCrisisCastsUnited States Of AmericaMovie StarLegitimacy Author:Mika Brzezinski
“If we keep kicking the can down the road, if we follow the president's lead or if we pass the Senate budget, then we will have a debt crisis. Then everybody gets hurt. You know who gets hurt first and the worst in a debt crisis? The poor, the elderly. That's what we're trying to prevent from happening.” TryingHurtPoorWorstCrisis Author:Paul Ryan
“This is the first global crisis that doesn't start in poor countries and it was caused by the rich countries. So it's necessary to take advantage of this crisis - the financial system has to be regulated. It's necessary that the central banks in the world should control a little bit the banks' financing, because they cannot bypass a certain range of leverage. And I believe that there's no other - more any reason for a G-8 group or any other "G." I believe that we should guarantee that the G-20 should be now an important forum to discuss the major economic issues of the world.” WorldBelieveImportantCountryReasonI BelievePoorRichEconomicCrisisFinancialFinancing Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?” FightingNationsPoorMillionsRichParticularHealthySickWake UpCrisisResponseAidsSolidarityHivRich And PoorUnprecedentedOrphanEpidemicsHiv AidsAids Epidemic Author:Kofi Annan
“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.” HumansWellsProblemPoliticalHumanitySocialCausesReligiousPoorRichRightsEconomicGoes OnDevelopmentConflictRacismRootsAbuseCrisisHungerHuman RightsPopulationPursuitInequalityWell BeingIntoleranceRefugeeRich And PoorInstabilityImpedimentsProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemReligious IntoleranceRoot CausePolitical Instability Author:Poul Hartling
“Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.” NeedsMeanCountryShowsGovernmentActionPoorDealsMillionsFourHealthCrisisMedicineWorkersAccessExtrasGrantsAffordableUnprecedentedPoor CountriesThose In NeedImmediate ActionHealth Workers Author:Annie Lennox
“We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.” WorldAmericaNationsCausesPoorFocusDrugResourcesCrisisTradeDebtAidsAccessAgreementAffordableEpidemicsGenericTrade AgreementsImfWorld BankPoor Nations Author:Dennis Kucinich
“Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.” StatesCareSchoolLyingSocialCausesPoorCommonLeaderIssuesRichEffectsSecurityMediaCrimePoliticianDrugTaxesRacismSolutionsCrisisMessHealth CareWelfareGapsHealthcareUnemploymentSocial SecurityRich And PoorDependencyWelfare StateHigh Taxes Book:The Ten Things You Can't Say In America Source: The Ten Things You Can't Say In America