Political Collapse Quotes

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

We are witnessing the collapse of Bolshevism.

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

We can't have a government that will collapse in three months.

I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have been running the countries for years. They are severely declining. You can see it in voting; you can see it also in popular attitudes: contempt for what are called "the élites," the experts, the people in charge.

In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

Almost every great war has led to a collapse of the coalition that won the victory.

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.