When I look back on my childhood I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life like radioactive elements.

Your home is regarded as a model home your life as a model life. But all this splendor and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come a word can be spoken and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

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.

Billy is a funny cheeky lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

The banking collapse was caused more than anything by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation rather than by greed.