Collapse Quotes

501 quotes by 435 authors

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The… — Guillaume Apollinaire
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law. — Nelson Mandela
What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse? — George Monbiot
I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse… — Marjorie Pizer
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the… — Abraham Lincoln
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with… — William J Doherty
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse… — Carl Safina
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon. — Austin O'Malley
In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink of… — Felix Dodds
The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding.… — Adyashanti
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a… — Walter Lippmann
The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on… — Kenneth Lay
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation,… — Vladimir Putin
Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show â€˜The New Normalâ€™ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip Iâ€™ve seen feels like… — Anthony Jeselnik
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point… — Saul Alinsky
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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