Collapse Quotes - Page 10

• We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

  Tony Benn

  War, July, Play

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. October 23, 2000.

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• Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Ideas, Political

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• Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.

  Simon Hoggart

  Optimistic, Mean, White

  "Ironing the Lawn in Salisbury, Rhodesia". www.theguardian.com. February 09, 1980.

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• Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

  Ken Danby

  Drawing, Foundation, Painting

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• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Believe, Fall, Black

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within it’s body, the infalling material can be no longer be compressed; the star is blown to pieces; its shattered mass realeases out ward at the speed of light.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Light, Pieces

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• When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

  Bertolt Brecht

  House, Littles, Great Ones

  Bertolt Brecht (1957). “Two Plays: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle”

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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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• He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Peace, Honey, Bees

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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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• When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

  George Osborne

  Failure, People, Looks

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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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• I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

  Joan Kirner

  Osteoporosis, Bones, Severe

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• 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.

  Paco Underhill

  Economy, Stores, Needed

  Paco Underhill (2009). “Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Ignorance, Reality, Names

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Errors, House Of Cards

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• If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.

  Charles Bowden

  Oil, Mexican, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.

  Nelson DeMille

  Writing, Thinking, Spy

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths of billions of people. It's certainly not something I'm willing to accept.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Thinking, Civilization, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Pregnancy, Knowing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.

  James Vance

  Book, Ideas, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Economic Models, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Oil, Way, Significant

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I'd probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn't see them, no one would know me.

  Heidi Julavits

  Eye, People, Faces

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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