70 Disintegration Quotes

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A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart — Bill Parcells

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. — William Butler Yeats

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. — William Gibson

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. — Unknown

Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.' — Heraclitus

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin. — Bryant H. McGill

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. — Ravi Zacharias

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. — Walter Benjamin

The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. — Linda Gordon

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates. — Billy Graham

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. — Hayao Miyazaki

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order. — Margaret J. Wheatley

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance. — Dan Flavin

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Short Disintegration Quotes

  • In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be — Keith Duckworth
  • You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly. — Erik Erikson
  • I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece. — Emile M. Cioran
  • We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. — Mahmoud Abbas
  • Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride. — Bret Easton Ellis
  • Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration. — Ludwig von Mises
  • Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you. — H. P. Lovecraft
  • Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger. — Christopher Lasch
  • The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. — William Greider
  • Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol. — L. Ron Hubbard

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More Disintegration Quotes

Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate. — Bill W.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. — Wernher Von Braun

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill. — Robert Lawson Shaw

All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven. — Carolyn Porco

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. — Edith Wharton

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Mass cannot be created from nothing, and mass cannot disintegrate into nothing. So, if a fat cell gets larger, there is a net accumulation of fat in that cell relative to how much goes out of it. And the converse is true. — Peter Attia

Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share. — Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened. — Augusto Pinochet

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings. — Ludwig von Mises

Some people just can’t seem to deal with any uncertainty in their lives, and time and time again they find themselves imprisoned in situations that kill their happiness, push them towards despair, and gradually disintegrate their self-esteem. They don’t realize that in their attempt to avoid uncertainty and the short-term discomfort it might bring, they’re actually inadvertently opting for long-term misery. — Steven Bartlett

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken. — Xi Jinping

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars. — David Bottoms

Nor would he condemn democracy outright, allowing that it might be appropriate for some countries. Still, he argued that democracy would bring disintegration to Russia, which needed “firm authority. — Stephen Kotkin

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. — Francis Parker Yockey

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No-frill rappers: you will evaporate, disintegrate, deflate to your fate, as the great will dominate straight to the state Of reignin', gainin'...So put Kane in That category. Period. End of story. — Big Daddy Kane

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. — Thomas Sowell

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant. — Buddha

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. — Sigmund Freud

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones. — Thomas Ligotti

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. — Jean Baudrillard

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. — George Grosz

Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us. — Houston Stewart Chamberlain

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration. — Billy Graham

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. — Jerry Saltz

With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition. — Karl Jaspers

They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate. — Lee Kuan Yew

The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact. — Frank Chodorov

Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world. — Caroline Myss

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration. — Norman Cousins

Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life. — Caroline Myss

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness. — Joe Hill

The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. — Peter Marshall

The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated. — Jeremiah Denton

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