Breaking Down quotes
78 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down."
"There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood."
"Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many."
"Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily."
"Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free."
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"Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation."
"Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair"
"For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves."
"I can make things happen when plays break down."
"Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down."
"Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense."
"The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down."
"Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks."
"We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest."
"If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult of personality that is one of the most distorting things about our electoral system in Canada. We had a constellation of social actors behind the Leap Manifesto. And we created something bigger than ourselves."
"Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy."
"Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence."
"At some point, Moore's law will break down."
"A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, youre still going to get through the day. But it doesnt make you a happy person if you werent a happy person before."
"When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo."
