Inevitable Collapse Quotes

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.

The old system collapsed before a new one could be created.

There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our submissiveness we make it so.

Every government of the world has the seeds of its own destruction in itself.

At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.