Quotes about Crisis

Crisis doesn't necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it. Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts... In my view, the great intellectual challenge facing conservatives is to make the case for morality at a time when many in the West have ceased to believe in an external moral order. The decline of belief in such an order is the most important political development of the past two centuries. Indeed, this decline has created the crisis of the West.

Fascism and Nazism both emerged out of a debate within socialism. The problem began when the central prophecies of Marxism failed to occur. This created a massive crisis within the Left, and essentially Marxism split into two camps: the first became Leninism and Bolshevism, and the other became fascism and Nazism.

Everything around us seems unscrewed, loosened, and out of joint. The fountains of the great deep appear to be breaking up. Ancient institutions are tottering and ready to fall. Social and religious systems are failing and crumbling away. Church and state both seem convulsed to their very foundations, and what the end of this convulsion may be no one can tell.

People don't mind doing CPR on a crisis victim, but no person is equipped to be the constant lifeline to another.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

It is not bad to pray in a time of crisis. One of God's most amazing attributes is that he is humble enough to accept people when they turn to him in sheer desperation, even when they have been ignoring him for years.