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«Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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Civilization
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«Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
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«Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.»
«If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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«After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.»
Author: Guillermo Mordillo
| About:
God
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«It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.»
«It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely.»
Author: Malcolm X
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«It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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«Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Civilization,
Newspapers
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«Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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