Collapse Quotes

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

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

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

The work of memory collapses time.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.