Collapse Quotes - Page 26

• I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

  David Frum

  Party, Support, Republican

  "At National Review, a Threat to Its Reputation for Erudition" by Tim Arango, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2008.

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• but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

  John Green

  Forever, Sun, Ifs

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.17, Penguin

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• Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

  Frank Chodorov

  War, Self Esteem, Events

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Rise and Fall of Society”, p.150, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Moving, Ideas, Important

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• Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse.

  Rudolf Bahro

  Spiritual, Animal, Civilization

  Rudolf Bahro (1986). “Building the Green movement”, Library Company of Philadelphia

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• Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

  Keith Ablow

  Real, Guy, Finding Yourself

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• I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

  Thomas Harris

  Grandmother, Swans, Evil

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press

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• Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Mean, Escaping

  "Living in the Present Is a Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

  Joshua Foer

  Exercise, Long, One Day

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin

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• Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

  Ron Fournier

  Country, Giving, Credit

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• When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

  Greg Kinnear

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• 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.

  Arthur Laffer

  Cutting, Economy, Increase

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• Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

  Doris Lessing

  Our Society, Dependent, Precarious

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

  Niall Ferguson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Civilization

  "The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity". TEDGlobal 2011, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

  Bryan Clay

  Fun, Real, Places To Go

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• Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Kids, Parent

  "Remembering Maurice Sendak and the Wild Things" by Anita Voelker, www.foxnews.com. May 8, 2012.

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

  A. N. Wilson

  Believe, House, Church

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• In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

  E. O. Wilson

  Land, Ecosystems, Ants

  "An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life". Interview with David Pogue, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Home, Might, Great Depression

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• Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Ideology, Sexually

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• Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.

  David Icke

  Panic, Administration, Bail

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• One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Passion, One Day, Driven

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.192, Penguin

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• Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, People, Three

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• We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, War, Ignorance

  Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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• Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fear, Innovation, Intellectual

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