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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

martin firrell

— Quoted in The London Evening Standard (9 August 2001)

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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)

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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]

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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)

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"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).

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"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

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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

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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 

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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

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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.

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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))

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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

— p. 24 (The End of Economic Man (1939))

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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

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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!".

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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

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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

— p. 443 (The Emperor and the Maula (2007))

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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))

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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))

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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?


— The New World Order (1939)

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You can go into slow motion or fast motion in a comic book in a way you can't in a movie without drawing attention to it. You can have six panels in a row where the actions are a half second apart, or you can skip years between panels and it just doesn't have the same egregious quality, where, in a movie, Peckinpah slows down the murder and it seems that the body collapse in slow motion; it seems like an entirely different thing when you do that on film and when you do that on the comics page.


— Samuel R. Delany The Comics Journal 48

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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

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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

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Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi’ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin .


— War Now! (September 9, 2002)

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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

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