Collapse Quotes

• When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Energy
  • Star
  • Sun

• I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Economy
  • Dollars
  • Soviet

• Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Painting
  • Collapse

• Just because we are not seeing a collapse today doesn’t mean we are not subjecting humanity to a process that could lead to catastrophic outcomes over the next century.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Today
  • Humanity
  • Process

• A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Feeling
  • Collapse
  • Christian Life

• We can now develop methods and experiences that utilize the brain’s own natural neuroplasticity to help survivors feel fully alive in the present and move on with their lives. There are fundamentally three avenues: 1) top down, by talking, (re-) connecting with others, and allowing ourselves to know and understand what is going on with us, while processing the memories of the trauma; 2) by taking medicines that shut down inappropriate alarm reactions, or by utilizing other technologies that change the way the brain organizes information, and 3) bottom up: by allowing the body to have experiences that deeply and viscerally contradict the helplessness, rage, or collapse that result from trauma. Which one of these is best for any particular survivor is an empirical question. Most people I have worked with require a combination.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experiences
  • Develop
  • Connecting

• American ideas about freedom certainly resonate abroad. Eastern Europeans embraced them after the collapse of Communist rule. Indeed, the years since 1989 have witnessed an unprecedented internationalization of current American concepts of freedom.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Freedom
  • Rule
  • Communist

• The sort of stereotypical wrestling practice is that you're doing burpees, and the coach is yelling at you to keep going, and you feel like you're going to collapse, but you somehow make it through to the end.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Wrestling
  • Coach
  • Collapse

• We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Support
  • Government
  • Economy

• 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.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Country
  • Force
  • Iraq

• Kenneth Lay is charged with abusing his powerful position as chairman of the board and CEO and repeatedly lying in an effort to cover up the financial collapse that caused devastating harm to millions of Americans.

  

  Christopher Wray
  • Financial
  • Chairman
  • Abusing

• If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Freedom
  • Evolution
  • Environmental

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Accident
  • Bicycle
  • Civilisation

• Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.

  

  Bernard Lietaer
  • Financial
  • Diversity
  • Currency

• The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

  

  Heinz Guderian
  • World
  • War
  • House

• Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Spring
  • Events
  • Policy

• 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 group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.

  

  David Yonggi Cho
  • Church
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

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

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Tragedy
  • Century
  • Soviet

• 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
  • Economic
  • Bigs
  • Determined

• To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Effort
  • Path
  • Disappointment

• There has been little, if any, doubt that nothing short of a massive regime collapse, or (even more violent and bloody) full-scale war, will ever produce a non-nuclear North Korea. The regime is run by cold-minded and rational people who cannot afford to be emotional...

  

  Andrei Lankov
  • Emotional
  • Afford
  • Regime

• The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Country
  • War
  • Surprise

• Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

  

  Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Doubt
  • Belief
  • Collapse

• The laws of relativity are clear on this point. If you could move at the speed of light, you would see all of space shrink to a single point, and all of time collapse to an instant. In the reference frame of light, there is no space and time.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Laws
  • Reference
  • Speed of Light

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