#crisis

So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business? ↗

— Ray Dalio

#community #crisis #does #financial #financial crisis

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#countries #crisis #developing #developing world #east

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#could #crisis #i #i think #made

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #attitude

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bring #crisis #disastrous #freedom #hour

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#aloud #crisis #every #friend #life

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#consciousness #crisis #current #dominance #global

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#change #consciousness #created #crisis #develop

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#came #carter #crisis #did #down

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#crisis #having #how #program #real