Collapse Quotes - Page 24

• It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, People, Normal

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

  Frank Herbert

  Knows, Trapped

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.101, Penguin

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• Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.

  Uri Avnery

  War, Islamic, Israel

  "War Now!" by Uri Avnery, September 9, 2002.

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• If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Order, Innovation, Environmental

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• One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

  Barry Lopez

  Light, Expression, Excellence

  "In 'Sliver Of Sky,' Barry Lopez Confronts Childhood Sexual Abuse". 'Fresh Air' with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 10, 2013.

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• Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].

  Xi Jinping

  Party, People, Republic

  "Opinion: Corruption as China's top priority" by Jaime A. FlorCruz, edition.cnn.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  "The Coming Disintegration of Financial Markets". archive.larouchepac.com. June 24, 1994.

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• Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.

  Ilana Mercer

  Excuse, Carousels, Grievance

  "The Ridiculous Racial Merry-Go-Round". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. May 02, 2014.

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• The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.

  Alan Bock

  Men, Years, Civilization

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• When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Air, Blood, Veins

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.79, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to do is get rid of the Red Army and the KGB, and build up the economy. Instead, they just get rid of the economy and keep the military and the KGB.

  David Graeber

  Military, Army, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Children, World, Belief

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is when the space gets flattened or the space collapses. It's the same with the technique in the sculptures: for some to feel really wrong, you have to have parts be really right.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Space, Technique, Sculpture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, West, Economics

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• When the Jews leave Russia, Communism will collapse there. World Jewry is today relocating to America. Thus the real threat of Communism in America has just begun.

  Arnold Leese

  Real, Russia, America

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• There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.

  Jason Blum

  Mind, Months, Window

  Source: deadline.com

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• Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Memories, House, Old Houses

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• In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.

  Ian Mcewan

  War, Self, Order

  "The day of judgment, part two" by Ian McEwan, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Lying, Battle

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• Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

  Hudson Taylor

  Teaching, Feelings, Each Day

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• America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, America, Relax

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• The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Gambling, Government, Growth

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.136, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Running, Mistake, Smart

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