Quotes About Collapse

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold...

Whatever they had together, it was collapsing under its own weight. He could see the signs. Her dissatisfaction was showing, like a slip beneath the hem of a crisply pleated skirt, and it ruined the whole effect.

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tax. When the star stops generating energy, it will collapse.

It would be astonishing if the details of a primitive, static society's collapse had any relevance to hidden dangers that may be facing our open, dynamic and scientific society, let alone what we should do about them.

But Hayek is also one of the handful of social scientists who (along with his teacher Ludwig von Mises) demonstrated more than sixty years ago why the socialist system could not work and, thus, why it would eventually collapse, as it did in 1989.

For example, in the chiasmus used by Isaiah here in the first eight verses, the main message is found in verse 5, where he emphasizes that when a society collapses because of wickedness, everyone is persecuted and oppressed by everyone else.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

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

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove