“It’s possible to have a major political crisis even if the Constitution is crystal clear on the remedy, or to have a constitutional crisis that doesn’t ruffle many feathers.”— Seth Masket, Julia Azari, fivethirtyeight.com
“Power will devolve to it, not to resolve a real crisis (it doesn't exist), but to manage the discourse of the crisis...”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“It’s just that he, like all narcissistic personalities, has no clue how disgracefully — how shamefully, how deplorably — he’ll be enshrined in memory.”— Jennifer Senior, New York Times, nytimes.com
“Many people say that we don’t have any solutions to the climate crisis. And they are right. Because how could we? How do you 'solve' the greatest crisis that humanity has ever faced? How do you 'solve' a war? How do you 'solve' going to the moon for the first time? How do you 'solve' inventing new i…”— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com
“The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosyste…”— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Enti…”— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com
“We have not treated this crisis as a crisis; we see it as another problem that needs to be fixed. But it is so much more than that. It’s an existential crisis, more important than anything else.”— Greta Thunberg, plantbasednews.org
“We live in a strange world where children must sacrifice their own education in order to protest against the destruction of their future. Where the people who have contributed the least to this crisis are the ones who are going to be affected the most.”— Greta Thunberg, apnews.com
“According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. In that time, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place, including a reduction of our .CO2 emissions by at least 50%.”— Greta Thunberg, bbc.com
“I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire—because it is.”— Greta Thunberg, web.archive.org
“I want to feel safe. How can I feel safe when I know we are in the greatest crisis in human history?”— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com
“Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.”— Phil McGraw, amazon.com
“Great. Sounds like the grown-ups have it all under control.”— Brian K. Vaughan, Norrie Calvert-Hill, Mackenzie Lintz, imdb.com
“So there's no more secrets but now everyone hates each other. So much for coming together in a moment of crisis.”— Tad Safran, Stella Abbott, Lucy Hale, imdb.com
“When parents fight, the child has a crisis of loyalty.”— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Chrisjen Avasarala, Shohreh Aghdashloo, imdb.com
“The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.”— John McCain, presidency.ucsb.edu