Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

We’ve had plenty of populist figures in our past, but they had a different degree of substance than Mr. Trump. William Jennings Bryan [the Democratic nominee for president in 1896, 1900 and 1908] came out of a period like today. The industrial revolution was like our tech revolution and globalization. The pace of life had sped up and made people anxious. Telegrams and telephones were fast. Immigration was huge. And Bryan’s supporters, like Trump’s, were fearful about the way the country was changing.

You know, we live in a crazy world, I have to say.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

In the current state of the world, the relentless march of globalization generates more ruptures, tensions, contradictions and collective conflicts than did the exportation of fragments of material modernity to colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries.

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

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

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

We live in ugly times.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

Unless I am gravely mistaken, I am the only reporter in this city, teeming with reporters, who goes to bed every night praying that he is dead wrong. I see danger—fearful danger—hanging over this country that I love. I keep hoping it is a mirage, in which case I shall indeed be dead wrong.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.