“I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.” ThinkingKnowsWayShouldIdeasUseSufferingFallCausesLinesNiceSceneCrisisCleanWanderHavocAscending Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.” IfsKnowsHeartDoneLyingSufferingWhiteSourceConscienceCrisisGuiltSouthSegregationSchizophreniaDegradingPatronizing Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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
“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
“When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.” WayEyeSufferingFindingsCrisisStormCyclones Author:Bernadette Roberts
“After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.” PeopleWorldMayImportantSelfSufferingFoundLostAnswersKnownPressureCrisisRealizationMeaninglessWorldlyAttainmentSense Of Self Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.” IfsWritingFactsSufferingAlivePaperCrisisSurrenderExistentialSheetsWhitenessExistential Crisis Author:Kiki Dimoula
“It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.” ArtFactsKidsSufferingNationsEnjoyTeachIdentityBattleLaborCrisisFruitChiefsWho We AreAgendasAncestorIdentity Crisis Author:Wynton Marsalis
“People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.” PeopleWayTodayJobsPoliticalSufferingCoursesMillionsTomorrowDespairCrisisRight WayGreecePolitical Systems Author:Dora Bakoyannis
“He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.” KnowsShouldYearsAbleSufferingQualityCompanyGainsProgramCrisisDollarsImprovementDelusion Author:W. Edwards Deming
“When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.” ProblemBigsSufferingNextEventsPossibilityInternetCrisisNuclearComplexityOnlineKillersFluEuroBig ProblemsProliferationOverloadNuclear ProliferationEuro Crisis Author:John L. Casti
“It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn the housing bubble that gave us the financial crisis of 2008, the lingering effects of which have forced many OWS protesters to try to launch their careers in by far the most inhospitable labor market we've seen since the Great Depression. Even those recent graduates who manage to find jobs will suffer a lifelong penalty in reduced wages.” TryingJobsSufferingCareersEffectsPercentLaborCrisisFinancialDrivenManageInequalityRisingGraduatesBubblesPenaltiesWagesHousingLifelongExaggerationGreat DepressionFinancial CrisisLingeringSpawnHousing Bubble Author:Robert H. Frank
“What's going on in Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. And we are punishing those who are suffering most in this circumstance, in this condition. We vet refugees from Syria for a period of 18 to 24 months before they're allowed to come to the United States. And, you know, if you will permit me, I think we know more about them by the time they get here than we know about the president's finances.” ThinkingWorldWarSufferingWorstCircumstancesCrisisHumanitarianFinanceWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ISyriaRefugee Author:Daniel Benjamin
“Companies that do not actively practice, study, and plan for crisis communications - as well, of course, crisis management - are doomed to fail when a crisis befalls them. Crises are, in a word, inevitable, and those macho companies that think, "it can't happen here," or if it does, "I can handle it," will suffer the hardest failures.” ThinkingSufferingStudyFailingCommunicationManagementCrisisInevitableMacho Author:Steven Fink
“Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.” SoulSufferingBrokenCrisisInstitutionsWestBrokennessBroken Family Author:Gary Bauer
“You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303” SpiritSufferingFoundCausesImaginationLossLevelsNovelChildhoodConditionsCenturyEmotionalBenefitsLowsRainConstitutionCrisisDeeperTraumaWanderAppetiteSymptomsAdequateHeroinesWearinessYour FavoriteFreezingAilmentsPolioTuberculosisFaintingLiving ConditionsEmotional Trauma Author:Diane Setterfield
“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.” PeopleNeedsMayWarProblemPoliticalSufferingNationsKindnessIssuesEnvironmentAreasAdversityCrisisFundamentalsEnvironmentalLuxuryMidstFragileGesturesPollutionFleetingUrgentFamineBasicsProblems And SolutionsMost MeaningfulDismissalEssential Questions Author:Bo Lozoff
“Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world.” WorldYearsMayLittlesHas BeensTwoSufferingCoursesLeftMistakeEnemyStudyConditionsMilitaryDutyWeaponsArmyCrisisThreatLeavingSoldierActiveSpendingNuclearErasAppropriateTwo YearsElsewhereNuclear WeaponsContinuingUrgentIrresponsibleReadinessProliferationContinuing On Author:Russ Feingold
“We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsTryingImportantCertainSufferingLeftForceLeaderStandingAbsolutesCrisisGreedScalesThanksNew WaysBusiness LeadersDumped Author:Richard Branson