Collapse Quotes

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.

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

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

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

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

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.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

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

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

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!

As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

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

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.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.