Collapse Quotes · Page 4

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The only thing I could think of was, if you move, you will crumble. If you breathe, you will collapse.”

— Hannah Kent

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

— Christine Caine

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

— Robert Metcalfe

“No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse”

— William E. Dodd

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

— Eckhart Tolle

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

— Jean Piaget

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

— Vladimir Putin

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like…

— Horace Greeley

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action…

— John Thaw

I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a…

— Graydon Carter

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

— Richard Perle

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold…

— Fareed Zakaria

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

— Peter Singer

If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end…

— Francois Hollande

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

We print journalists are victims of economic forces beyond our control. We were as surprised as everyone else was by the sudden…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive…

— Charles P. Kindleberger

Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of…

— Bill Bailey

You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to…

— David Graeber

The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole,…

— Milton Friedman

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until…

— Guillermo del Toro

Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the…

— Robert Metcalfe

“Humans are only one species of millions. To kill millions of species for the benefit of one is insane, just as killing…

— Aric McBay

I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as…

— William J. Duiker

What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end…

— Catherine Mayer

“The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too…

— Julian Barnes

For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but…

— Ben Ehrenreich

“Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains…

— Mark A. Rayner

So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake…

— Robert Fisk

“Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things,…

— Mort W. Lumsden

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

— Christopher Lasch

If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

— Miyamoto Musashi

“A cry escapes my throat as I collapse to my knees. Dad’s gone.”

— Erin Hayes

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

— Vance Havner

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

— Sushma Swaraj

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

— Stephen Kinzer

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

— Werner Herzog

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

— Hugh Bonneville