Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should…

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom…

— Erich Fromm

In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state…

— George Soros

From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and…

— George Gilder

“Shod Omnivorism; it pretty much sums up the current state of the world. I find the word 'shod' deeply descriptive; it conjures such an…

— Mango Wodzak

The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected…

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if…

— Adrienne Rich

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic…

— Adrienne Rich

“We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is…

— I-Ching

“Recent studies suggest we are already in a period of extreme disequilibrium. Over the past 10,000 years human evolution has occurred 10-100x faster than…

— Juan Enriquez

The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for…

— Helmut Schmidt

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or…

— Jack Vance

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the…

— Gunnar Myrdal

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except…

— Remy de Gourmont

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

— George Soros