Collapse Quotes - Page 14

• Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€™ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Islamic, Government

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• Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Wise, Healing, Ideas

  D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.48, Fearless Books

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• The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Witty, Truth, Philosophical

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• The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

  Heinz Guderian

  War, House Of Cards, Broken

  Heinz Guderian (2001). “Panzer Leader”, p.387, Da Capo Press

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• Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

  William James

  Mean, Men, Absence

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• What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Courage, New Life

  "William Tell". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act IV, Scene II), 1804.

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• In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown.

  Derek Rydall

  Believe, Order, Ego

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• The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today

  Jonathon Porritt

  Climate, Banking, World

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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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• Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses and the river boils. Innumerable horses race insanely into the peak of battle. 3 Mountain. Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. The sky would fall but for the columns of mountains.

  Mao Zedong

  Song, Horse, Fall

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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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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• 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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• I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.

  Jay Asher

  Fall, Ivy, Want

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, Penguin

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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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• A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Culture, Moral

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.293, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and documentaries appeared, hypothesizing a snowblitz or sporting titles such as The Cooling. Even the CIA got into the act, sponsoring several meetings and writing a controversial report warning of threats to American security from the potential collapse of Third World Governments in the wake of climate change.

  Stephen Schneider

  Book, Writing, World Government

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• Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Two, Pillars

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• The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

  Irvine Welsh

  Princess, Men, Ghouls

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• We need to prepare for the inevitable collapse that's going to happen. Yes, I say that as a politician on stage. It's going to happen. We should look it at as an opportunity, not as something to be afraid of.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Insightful

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• Is the economy going to collapse if we continue down this road? Yes. Should Americans be self-reliant? Yes. Absolutely. ... I think loving our neighbors is being prepared to give them food. Loving our neighbors is being prepared to protect them.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Thinking, Self

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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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• 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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