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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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
Neither the sword of popes, nor the cross, nor the image of death — nothing will halt the march of truth. I wrote what I felt and that is what I preached with trusting spirit. I am convinced that after my destruction the teachings of false prophets will collapse.
ferenc dávid— His last words, a message he carved onto the walls of his dungeon cell, as quoted in For Faith and Freedom (1997) by Charles A. Howe; also quoted on their web page about the Transylvania Unitarian Church by the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church, Houston.
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
martin firrell— Quoted in The London Evening Standard (9 August 2001)
If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.
tim flannery— Chapter 22 (p. 209)
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).
"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— Attributed to him posthumously by his friend, business tycoon Hari Punja
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
ludwig von mises— Chapter XX: Interest, Credit Expansion, The Trade Cycle, § 8 : The Monetary or Circulation Theory of the Trade Cycle
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity.
eric s. raymond— Why Python?
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))
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— p. 24 (The End of Economic Man (1939))
So here’s a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse, that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nassariyeh the latter a city which briefly rose in successful revolt against Saddam in 1991 why should Saddam’s forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?
robert fisk— Anglo-American Lies Exposed, March 24, 2003
We've teed up this situation for Iraqis, and I think the next six months really are going to determine whether this country is going to collapse into three parts or more or whether it's going to come together.
thomas l. friedman— Face the Nation, December 18, 2005
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 average man of the present age … does not want to be a sentimentalist in his endeavors; he wants some measure for purposeful activity; he wants to feel that through the world some increasing purpose runs. … But since his metaphysic calls only for magnitude and number, since it is becoming without a goal, it is not a source of distinctions in value. It is a system of quantitative comparison. Its effect therefore has been to collapse the traditional hierarchy and to produce economic man, whose destiny is mere activity.
richard weaver— p. 51 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
A recognition of limits, of boundaries, may be the only thing that prevents power from dizzy collapse.
— Chapter Two, The Encounter With Nothingness, p. 32
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
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.
— "The Ridiculous Racial Merry-go-round," Economic Policy Journal, May 2, 2014
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, in his Nobel Lecture (8 December 1978)
