Instability Quotes · Page 2

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

— Jonas Gahr Store

Diplomacy has been exhausted .. Continued instability in the Balkans threatens important U.S. national interests,.

— Tom Daschle

“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

— Matthew Desmond

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of…

— Roman Payne

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

— David Korten

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

— Maria Montessori

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

— Polly Toynbee

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

— Robert Kuttner

The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground…

— Octavius Winslow

In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is…

— Milton Friedman

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the…

— Alan Watts

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world.…

— Vijay Seshadri

“But the thing is, most of the time bad things don't happen. Rocks don't fall. Earthquakes don't occur. New vents don't suddenly…

— Bill Bryson

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our…

— Angelina Jolie

It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism.…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned…

— Kenneth Arrow

We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next…

— Bill Gates

If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration…

— Mark Epstein

Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the…

— Rose Wilder Lane

I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable…

— William James

“When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must-- God is Change-- People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and…

— Octavia Butler

Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is…

— Mariel Hemingway

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

— Peter Drucker

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the…

— Michel de Montaigne

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

— Franz Grillparzer

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

— Nawaz Sharif

“The instability and disorderliness we have in Nigeria today and Africa at large is totally due to the absence of this light.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“In physics terms, the reason for symmetry breaking is the instability of the symmetric state.”

— Henning Genz

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

— Benjamin Graham

The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

— Saul Bellow

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

— Tony Blair

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

— Tavis Smiley

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

— Jeffrey Sachs

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security.

— Glenn Beck

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

— Boris Trajkovski

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche