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“Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.”

Ifs Objects Crisis Fundamentals Distracted

Author:Reed Hastings

“And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).”

Source: Race Matters: With a New Introduction

“I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.”

Thinking Littles Problem Community Attention Messages Crisis Fundamentals Marketing Competing

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.”

Values Modern Movement Demand Models Solutions Relation Crisis Fundamentals Radical Liberation Domination Ecological Ecological Crisis

Book:Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism

Source: Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism

“Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.”

Roles Periods Crisis Fundamentals Profound Britain Decline Dominant Inability Instability

Author:Martin Jacques

“We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.”

Should Reason Opportunity Energy Crisis Fundamentals Environmental Excuse Extremist Great Opportunity Energy Crisis

Author:Russell E. Train

“It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.”

Source: Science, Order, and Creativity

“The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.”

Reason Humanity Keys Crisis Fundamentals Intuition Eras Duality Binding

Author:Phil Collins

“Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.”

“King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.”

“The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it”

Politics Crisis Fundamentals Excuse Occasions Postponing

Book:Speeches

Source: Speeches

“The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.”

Men Firsts States Humanity Natural One Thing Capitalism Aspect Pressure Crisis Fundamentals Historical Endless Zone Adam Truck Domain Accumulation Propensity Commodification

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.”

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Author:Barry Commoner

“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.”

“The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It is clear that many banks did not fully implement these fundamental concepts. The obvious lesson is that banks need to improve their corporate governance practices and supervisors must ensure that sound corporate governance principles are thoroughly and consistently implemented.”

“At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.”