Collapse Quotes

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

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

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

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

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

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

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.

Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

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

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.

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

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money. Well, it did collapse.

[Donald Trump] said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse.

Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.