Collapse Quotes
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Here lies a prince whose intentions were pure, but who had the misfortune to see all his plans collapse.
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We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have 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 be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.
tony benn— HC Deb, 23 October 2000, Col 12, cited in Adam Tomkins, "What is Parliament for?" in Bamforth N. and Leyland P. (eds.), Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution, Oxford, Hart (2003, p. 53).
General Franco made it clear that Spain could enter the war only when England was about ready to collapse.
wilhelm canaris— Quoted in "The Last European War" - Page 114 - by John Lukacs - History - 1976
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 3, Policing Countries Through Loan "Conditionalities", p. 53
The collapse of the standard of living, engineered as result of macro-economic policy, is without precedent in Russian history: " We had more to eat during the Second World War."
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 16, The "Thirdworldization" of the Russian Federation, p. 241
A new global financial environment has unfolded in several stages since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971.
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 20, Global Financial Meltdown, p. 309
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— May 8, 1945; Vol. 2, p. 935
Whatever the other failures of the U.S. government were, it had managed to print an excess of dollars which, combined with the collapse of trade and communication, had severely eroded the currency's value.
james howard kunstler— Chapter 30, p. 146
The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.
lyndon larouche— "The Coming Disintegration of Financial Markets" (June 1994) [2]
I have a lot to be sad about. Not bitter in any way. But I think it can be fairly said that I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
joseph l. mankiewicz— "Joseph Mankiewicz, Master of the Movies," interview by Paul Attanasio, Washington Post (1986-06-01)
"I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse."
ratu sir kamisese mara— (Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).
If we don't change, our species will not survive... Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
maurice strong— Maurice Strong, September 1, 1997 edition of National Review magazine
It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.
margaret sullavan— from Haywire (1977) by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., p. 215. ISBN 0224014269.
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China].
xi jinping— As quoted in "Opinion: Corruption as China's top priority" in cnn.com (7 January 2013)
You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
glenn beck— Glenn Beck, Fox News, 6 November 2006
In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.
guy debord— Vol. 1, Pt. 2
In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
gilles deleuze— from Essays Critical and Clinical, p. 104.
The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out.
william a. dembski— p. 14 (Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology (1999))
I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.
charles foster johnson— March 14, 2008 [24]
It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse....
Irving Kristol— Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (1995), pp. 36-7
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
wyndham lewis— "Call Yourself a Man!".
Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel ... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.
ilana mercer— "The Ridiculous Racial Merry-go-round," Economic Policy Journal, May 2, 2014
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
robert silverberg— p. 443 (The Emperor and the Maula (2007))
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed)
african spir— p. 41 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.
— Chapter 3, Policing Countries Through Loan "Conditionalities", p. 53
A new global financial environment has unfolded in several stages since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971.
— Chapter 20, Global Financial Meltdown, p. 309
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.
— George Soros in Soros on Soros : Staying Ahead of the Curve (1995), p. 194
All independent religions are banned [in Vietnam]. Only economically speaking we are better [since the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975]. But politically speaking nothing changes.
— Thích Qu?ng ?. . (2007-12-20). YouTube video
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive "policies" and "Plans" of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word "socialism", but what else can one call it?
— H.G. Wells, The New World Order (1939).
