Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.
The last thing to collapse is the surface.
Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
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.
Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.
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.