Structural Weakness Quotes

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

The government they devised was defective from the start.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.