Collapse Quotes
501 quotes by 435 authors
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All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not…
— Jean Gebser
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Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.
— Gordon G. Chang
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Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
— Winston Churchill
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America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three…
— Joseph Stalin
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Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse;…
— Jurgen Habermas
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Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation…
— Rudolf Bahro
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Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual…
— Arthur Koestler
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you…
— Ai Weiwei
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Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers…
— Paddy Ashdown
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Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to…
— Kurt Eisner
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Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell…
— David Yonggi Cho
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For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not…
— Ben Ehrenreich
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THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN
— Joseph Goebbels
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With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
— George Burns
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Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose…
— Susan Griffin
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The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a…
— Gustav Stresemann
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We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to…
— Andrzej Wajda
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I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying…
— Hayao Miyazaki
Who Wrote These Collapse Quotes
435 authors contributed a total of 501 Collapse Quotes, led by these top contributors: