"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

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"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

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"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, Canadian Author

Crisis, Practice, Spiritual

"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Crisis, Spirit, Depression, Revolution, War

"It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis."

Whittaker Chambers, American Writer

Crisis, Communism, Fact, Popular

"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."

James A. Garfield, American President

Crisis,

"It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers."

Thomas Kuhn, American Writer

Crisis, Scientists

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

Crisis, Effect, Order, Rhetoric

"Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like, it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Crisis, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

Crisis, Fear, Atheism, Danger, Faith

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Crisis, Danger, Opportunity, Awareness

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Crisis, Today, Tomorrow

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"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."

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"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."

Fear

"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."

Time

"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."

Old

"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."

Science

"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."

Politics

"We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres."

Now

"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."

Literature

"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."

Death

"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."

Literature