Collapse Quotes - Page 4

• Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

  Richard Lugar

  Fate, Russia, People

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• Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

  Deb Caletti

  Family, Marriage, Being Strong

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Mountain

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• Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would be valued less. Whites in America were scared that if blacks obtained their freedom and equality, the system would collapse and their lives would be devalued. Heterosexuals are terrified that the psychotic institution of marriage will collapse if gays are given their right to marry. And humans are terrified that if animals are liberated and no longer viewed as inferior subordinates, human life will be valued less.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Gay, Men, Animal

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• You just overwhelm the system with so many dependents and so many middle class benefits having to be paid that the money isn't there. It causes a system-wide collapse, capitalism implodes upon itself, and somebody comes into the breach and restructures the government as a socialist utopian paradise - and the guy's dead serious about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Class, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Color, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Tears, Rising

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.55, e-artnow

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• Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

  Kim Chernin

  Giving Up, Lying, Long

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• ...Nature allows
  Destruction nor collapse of aught, until
  Some outward force may shatter by a blow,
  Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells,
  Dissolve it down.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Cells, Inward

  Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

  Haruki Murakami

  House Of Cards, Way, Drag

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.81, Random House

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

  George Monbiot

  Generations, Want, Climate Change

  "The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2008.

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• If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Ecosystems, Giving

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• In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Civilization, Choices, Way

  "How will everything change under climate change?" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2015.

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• If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.

  Daniel Tosh

  Soccer, Country, Europe

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• As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Chords, Scales, Western

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Reality, World, Clue

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control

  William Monahan

  Past, Editors, Digital Revolution

  Source: collider.com

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• MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

  Douglas Coupland

  School, Twenties, Inability

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  Sally Phillips

  Feelings, Botox, Faces

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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

  Masayoshi Son

  Country, Organization, Culture

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

  Mike Belkin

  Gold, Safe, Form

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• Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.

  Alain de Botton

  Rain, Giving, Storm

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

  Graham Hawkes

  Sound, Hull, Gone

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• For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.

  Morris Sullivan

  Believe, House Of Cards, Atheism

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• Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Attitude, Philosophy, Views

  Jean Paul Sartre (1963). “The Problem of Method”

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