Collapse Quotes

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Environmental

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

  Nigel Farage

  Government, Greed, Banking

  "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

  H. G. Wells

  World Government, Order, Nwo

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

  Stefan Zweig

  Wave

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• All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

  Tacitus

  Vigor, May, Firsts

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• Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Technology, Ideas

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• For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

  Jared Diamond

  Differences, Environmental, Making A Difference

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.308, Penguin

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• Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

  Robert Mugabe

  Mean, People, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Perfection, Institutions, Layout

  Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)

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• Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

  Red Skelton

  Running, Exercise, Golf

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• We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

  Andrzej Wajda

  People, Waiting, Culture

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• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Money, Wall, War

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• I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fear, Boxing

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• Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Reality, Impact, House

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• Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

  Richard Lugar

  Fate, Russia, People

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• An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

  Irving Babbitt

  Reading, Sunday, Perfect

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Age, Chance, Abandon

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• What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Icons, Target, Manhattan

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• The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

  Christopher Lasch

  Three, Lasts, Decades

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• When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

  Illeana Douglas

  Silly, Home, Scene

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 22, 2003.

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• I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

  Claire Danes

  July, Projects, Following

  Interview, www.ign.com. July 01, 2003.

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• Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Males, Gender

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Korea, Want, Regimes

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• The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Race, Tasks, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Energy, Would Be, Fabric

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