Brenda Strong Quotes

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.

I've watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I've watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I've watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.

I fear that some day or another we shall have in Europe a total upsetting of social order, which will drive all wise and experienced men to America.

Halve the income of the country and you double the risk of civil war.

When Americans—or citizens of any country—are faced with significant economic forces beyond their control, they struggle for answers, and often act out of frustration. The result is more turbulent politics, more strident cultural nationalism, and violence, as people seek ways to improve their economic situation … when the pie is shrinking.

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

The state of the world petrifies me as much as it does everyone else at the moment. Anyone who comes to my show expecting incisive political analysis will be deeply disappointed.

The world is pretty messed up.

My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.

You can't really ignore what's going on in this planet, in our world, and the way it's all falling apart.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

We are living at the moment in revolutionary times. Argentineans probably are more aware of it than anybody else, because they tasted it several years earlier - but now the whole world is in trouble.

The world is really heading in a very dangerous direction, it becomes that much more valuable and important to go to the movies and see human beings that are human beings.

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

I think the West is in a low point we haven't seen since the 1930s.