#isis

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#budget #california #contributions #crisis #cuts

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. ↗

— James Buchan

#crisis #economists #economy #failed #financial

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#crisis #genuinely #human #understand #understanding

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another. ↗

— Iris Chang

#another #crisis #economic #economic crisis #exploited

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#best #best work #buy #car #cars

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. ↗

— John Conyers

#better #citizens #crisis #engage #fact

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#develop #during #expect #good #moment

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film. ↗

— Claire Danes

#documented #few #film #go #hit

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#i #i think #last #more #our

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? ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#cause #condoms #crisis #doctors #having