“It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.” KnowsWorldNeedsStatesMomentsGodSeemsTimeSpiritualityUnitedHistoryUnited StatesDemocracyFutureSurvivalCommitmentCrisisSevereInterfaith Author:Walter Cronkite
“To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.” WantMeanEndsSufferingEvilEconomicsCrisisProductionsCreditCuresDeceptionCombatExpansionSevereBankingProceduresVery MeanMisdirection Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsPersonsBigsSchoolClassCollegePersonalityHigh SchoolFemaleCrisisFingersMalesRingsSevereSeniorSenior YearSemesterSaying NothingSign SayingsHigh School Class Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.” ThinkingHumansMaySufferingRaceWallConsequenceCrisisClimateClimate ChangeFinancialDecadesHuman RaceRealisingHittingSevereFinancial Crisis Author:Michael Meacher
“Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.” LooksCrisisListsMagazinesSevereHousingRecessionsCnnPlaces To LiveColoradoBest PlaceLouisvilleHousing Crisis Author:Richard Benjamin
“Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.” KnownHappenedDemandCrisisFinancialPersistSevereEconomistShortageGreat DepressionFinancial Crisis Author:Bob Frank
“In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.” PeopleThinkingWayStatesWould BeIndividualWaitingMembersRedAppreciateBasesCrisisBlueCongressExtremesCampaignsMidstVotersSenatorsSeverePartisanship Author:Barack Obama
“Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for other such players making reciprocal concessions in other areas where it has relatively more at stake. Such trades are collectively rational insofar as they get each of the powerful players more of what it wants. But such trades are also dangerous because the whole international rule-system will become incoherent and therefore vulnerable to crises that will continue to become increasingly severe.” WantWholePowerfulPlayerDangerousAreasCrisisTradeInternationalRationalVulnerableStakesSevereCoalitionsConcessionsReciprocal Author:Thomas Pogge
“Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.” ResultsCrisisFinancialDespitePassiveReservesSevereMandatesGreat Depression1930sFederal ReserveFinancial Crisis Author:Ben Bernanke
“The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.” IfsFactsWould BeDifficultPerspectiveCrisisFinancialSevereIndulgePredictableMagnitudeIndulge InFinancial CrisisSchadenfreude Author:Noam Chomsky
“The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.” IfsWaterSurvivalResourcesRainRiversCrisisStakesSeverePearlsHarborsWartimeWater ResourcesGettysburgWater Crisis Book:The Coming Water Famine Source: The Coming Water Famine
“There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?” MenInspirationalProblemHumorFunnyCausesDoctorsDatingCrisisSexyMedicalReactionsSevereHaving SexCondomAllergicSwellingGood SexLatexAllergic Reactions Author:Dustin Hoffman
“There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” IfsHas BeensLawGrowthAuthorityConstitutionCrisisClimate ChangeIncludingPopulationAbortionGlobal WarmingSevereCompulsoryPopulation GrowthPopulation Control Author:John Holdren
“Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.” TwoEarthFacesWaterEnvironmentPlanetsThirdsCrisisInvisibleDimensionsSevereOur PlanetEcologicalShortageDevastationWater Crisis Book:Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit Source: Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit
“If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.” IfsNeedsHas BeensMadeWould BeAmericaNationsProcessRealizingResultsDealsEducationEconomicPositionKeysWake UpCrisisBlowEducationalBoardsNeglectAssetsRelativeReverseSevereHistoricOne WordErosionEconomic CrisisSlow MotionEconomic Success Author:Paul Krugman
“The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.” WorldWayYearsWarSituationCrisisPlantCurrentsNuclearWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ISevereEarthquakesTsunamiCurrent SituationNuclear Plants Author:Naoto Kan