Collapse Quotes - Page 9

• Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Money, Civilization, Intellectual

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• By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.

  David Frum

  War, Israel, Blood

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• La poesía es la más sutil de las artes literarias, y los estudiantes se vuelven más ingeniosos cada año para evitarla. Si pueden sortear a Milton, esquivar a Blake y caer agradecidos en los brazos de Jane Austen, muchos de ellos lo harán.

  Terry Eagleton

  Arte, Años, Patos

  "A puritan at play", por Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. 15 de marzo de 2008.

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• Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Stress, Trust In God, Enough

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• It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Civilization, Numbers, Nurse

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). "LOS PEORES AÑOS DE NUESTRAS VIDAS", Pantheon

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• No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

  Sebastian Junger

  Spring, Military, Dark

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• What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Real, Greatness

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• Ha comenzado una nueva carrera espacial, y la mayoría de los estadounidenses ni siquiera son conscientes de ello. Esta carrera no tiene que ver con el prestigio político o el poder militar. Esta nueva carrera implica a toda la especie humana en una contienda contra el tiempo. Todos los habitantes de la Tierra están en una carrera desesperada contra el desastre... Para salvar la Tierra debemos mirar más allá, al espacio interplanetario. Ante el colapso de la civilización y el fin del mundo tal y como lo conocemos, debemos comprender que nuestro planeta no existe aislado.

  Ben Bova

  Militar, Civilización, Espacio

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• Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Battle, Cyprus, Fresh Start

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• Hay una vieja canción que afirma que "las mejores cosas de la vida son gratis". ¡No es verdad! ¡Totalmente falso! Esa fue la trágica falacia que provocó la decadencia y el colapso de las democracias del siglo XX; esos nobles experimentos fracasaron porque se había hecho creer a la gente que podía votar simplemente por lo que quisiera... y conseguirlo sin esfuerzo, sin sudor, sin lágrimas. Nada de valor es gratis. Incluso el aliento de la vida se compra al nacer sólo con esfuerzo y dolor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Canción, Dolor, Creer

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). "Starship Troopers", p.76, Penguin

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• Con su decisión de utilizar la fuerza contra los extremistas violentos del Estado Islámico, el Presidente
  Obama ... se adentra una vez más -y con una comprensible gran reticencia- en el caos
  de toda una civilización que se ha desmoronado. La civilización árabe, tal y como la conocíamos, prácticamente ha desaparecido.
  ha desaparecido. El mundo árabe de hoy es más violento, inestable, fragmentado e impulsado por el extremismo -
  extremismo de los gobernantes y de los opositores- que en cualquier otro momento desde la caída del Imperio Otomano hace un siglo.
  Imperio Otomano hace un siglo.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islámico, Civilización, Roto

  "Los bárbaros a nuestras puertas", por Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. 18 de septiembre de 2014.

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• It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

  Mike Lee

  Ceilings, Fiction, Debt

  "Republican Senator Wants Deeper Spending Cuts". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 08, 2011.

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• If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Lines

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• One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Together, Losing

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• En realidad, no me imagino a las tropas de la OTAN sobre el terreno y creo que también es importante enviar ese mensaje muy claro a la ONU y a otras organizaciones ahora mismo para que puedan ponerse en marcha los planes adecuados a su debido tiempo y el régimen de Gadafi pueda derrumbarse pronto.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Thinking, Important, Messages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Italian, Effort, Should

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Ice, Brain

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Home, Men, Gentleman

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Fundación Woodrow Wilson, Universidad de Princeton (1978). "Los papeles de Woodrow Wilson"

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• Siempre he pensado que si empezáramos por un momento a decir lo que pensamos, la sociedad se derrumbaría.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Honesty, Moments, Ifs

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• I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.

  Richard Estes

  Passion, Artist, Thinking

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• The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.

  Steve Jurvetson

  News, Financial, Lifetime

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• Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Challenges, Flow

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.43, 1988.

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• The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

  George H. Smith

  Negative, Utterance, Way

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• La rapidez con la que se derrumban los ejércitos, abdican las burocracias y se disuelven las estructuras sociales una vez destituido el autócrata suele sorprender a los responsables políticos estadounidenses.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Army, Surprise, Speed

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick". www.economist.com. December 19, 2006.

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