Collapse Quotes - Page 11

• Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Trends, Horrible

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• The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Government, Perfect

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• If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

  Lester R. Brown

  Progress, Principles, Doe

  Lester R. Brown (2013). “Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth”, p.77, Routledge

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• This document will play an important role in protecting the strategic interests of Russia and Uzbekistan and ensuring stability and security in the region, which some politicians call Russia's soft underbelly. It's not a secret that after the Soviet collapse and especially in recent years, Central Asia has become the focus of interest of major nations because of its geographic location and rich mineral resources.

  Islom Karimov

  Russia, Years, Play

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• We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

  Bon Scott

  Wall, Ceilings, Caves

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• When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Experience, Storm, Want

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.43, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Spirit

  "Haywire". Book by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., p. 215., 1977.

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• Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

  Jean Piaget

  Saving, Our Society, Violent

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• No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Order

  "European leaders predict 2012 will be worse than 2011" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.

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• With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Clever, Printing Money, Unemployment

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• Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

  Francis Chan

  People, Effort, Church

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.244, David C Cook

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• Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

  Thomas S. Power

  Mistake, Lying, Lessons

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• The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

  Scott McClellan

  Country, War, Media

  "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.

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• I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

  David Trumble

  Fashion, Giving, Mold

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• The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

  Michael Leunig

  Elude Us, Creative, Ego

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• Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

  Richard Perle

  Military, Organization, Support

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• Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  "he End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change how we manage them. Help protect our oceans so the next generation can also enjoy their bounty.

  Ted Danson

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

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• Cracks make caves collapse.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Caves, Cracks, Trifles

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• I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

  Steve Albini

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "The Verge Q+A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail". Interview with Aaron Lake Smith, www.gq.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  World, Rooms, Mystery

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• In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy.

  Paul Theroux

  Taken, Fate, Men

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• Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

  Robin Boyd

  Dust, Yellow, White

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• The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.

  Douglas Adams

  Real, Coffee, Ideas

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.59, Del Rey

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• When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

  Jacque Fresco

  Wealth, Bases

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