Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere 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.
Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
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.
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
. . . the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.
Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some new historical order will emerge. We cannot be sure what that order will be. Concretely, we may symbolize the first bifurcation as the effect of the world revolution of 1968 which continued up to and including the so-called collapse of the communisms in 1989, the social bifurcation.
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.
I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.
If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.