Economic Collapse Quotes

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

  Eric Alterman

  Military, War, Example

  Eric Alterman (1999). “Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy”, p.259, Cornell University Press

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• Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

  Eugene Mirman

  Talking, Saving, Economic

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• What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mortgage, Economic, Crisis

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  George Takei

  Moving, Suffering, Today

  Source: www.scifiheaven.net

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• I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.

  Van Jones

  Country, Real, War

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Europe, Economic, Currency

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• The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.

  James Vance

  Book, Ideas, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

  Ron Fournier

  Country, Giving, Credit

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• Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

  Kathleen Parker

  Wall, World, Poverty

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• Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Battle, Cyprus, Fresh Start

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• But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Pregnancy, Knowing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

  Charley Reese

  War, Race, Liberty

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• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  War, Loss, Government

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• The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.

  Steve Jurvetson

  News, Financial, Lifetime

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