Collapse Quotes - Page 9

• If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

  Ehud Olmert

  Struggle, Rights, Israel

  "State of Israel could disappear, warns Olmert" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2007.

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• This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

  Dalton Trumbo

  Brother, Kings, Years

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• The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Success, Healing, Differences

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• My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Believe, Japan, Surrender

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• In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Believe, Civilization

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• The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Fighting, Blessing, Past

  "The Jewish Writings".

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Order, Government

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• True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Government, Issues

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die

  Paul Watson

  Ocean, Marine, Civilization

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• What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Exhausted, Born

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Civilization, Quality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.283, Penguin

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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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• Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

  Paul Auster

  Painting

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.201, Faber & Faber

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• If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

  Naomi Klein

  Government, Greed, Intellectual

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• Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Self, Long

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Country, Cutting, Reality

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• A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

  Timothy Keller

  Reflection, Years, Long

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

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• A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Feelings, Christian Life

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1976). “Flames of Freedom”, p.137, Moody Publishers

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• Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Empathy, Consciousness, Biosphere

  Jeremy Rifkin (2010). “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”, p.616, Polity

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• America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

  Ross Douthat

  America, Littles, Too Much

  Ross Douthat (2013). “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Mother, Age, Bills

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• When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Stars, Order, Energy

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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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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