Collapse Quotes - Page 8

• Cracks make caves collapse.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Caves, Cracks, Trifles

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• For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.

  David L. Ulin

  Technology, Media, Age

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• If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Mean, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

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• If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

  Paul Krugman

  Men, Years, Wreckage

  Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I wanted to do an action-y thing, purely because I'm the least fit, healthy person in the world. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually run and not get out of breath and collapse. I wanted to push myself, in that way.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Running, Healthy, World

  "Kaya Scodelario Talks THE TRUTH ABOUT EMANUEL, Working with Jessica Biel, Filming Underwater, THE MAZE RUNNER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 7, 2014.

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• 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.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Korea, Cuba, Lasts

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• Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature

  Naomi Klein

  War, Law, Economic Models

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

  George P. Bush

  Agreement, Hands, Matter

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• If now, after the collapse, should any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler have the insolence to claim they were merely harmless onlookers, let them feel the scourge of avenging mankind .... Whoever cries about having lost the Nazi system or wants to resurrect National Socialism is to be treated as a lunatic.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Avenging, Want, Cry

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• Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Pain, Heart

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.67, Discovery House

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• As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?

  Frank Stella

  Thinking, World, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

  Robert Silverberg

  Order, Might, Behavior

  "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.

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• It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

  Juvenal

  Ruins, Pillars, Fame

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• We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Race, Age

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• If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

  Germaine Greer

  Economics, Structure, Ifs

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Fashion, Plato, War

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Two, Tea

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.

  Patrice Pavis

  Wall, Communication, Flirting

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• The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

  Lisa Alther

  Emotional, Energy, Deals

  Lisa Alther (2017). “The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Horace Greeley

  Rumor, World, Nine

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• Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Believe, Mind, Doe

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.55, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  "he End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

  James Hansen

  Ecosystems, Shifting, Climate

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". Article by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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• So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.

  Martin Walker

  Country, Banking Crisis, Europe

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• When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.

  Steve Carell

  Dating Someone, World, Want

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