Instability Quotes · Page 2

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

— Kofi Annan

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

— Elizabeth Goudge

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

— Peter Senge

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

— Maxim Gorky

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

— Virginia Postrel

We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

— Said Seyam

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

— Petrarch

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of…

— Edward Bach

I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that…

— Carrie Brownstein

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq…

— Alex Berenson

Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation,…

— Herbert Schiller

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the…

— David Blunkett

I think terrorists are trying to create instability in Turkey. They're trying to break Turkey apart from where she belongs, which is…

— Egemen Bag?s

Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when…

— Hyman Minsky

“His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed…

— David Ritz

The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization…

— Fritjof Capra

That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of…

— Alexander Hamilton

The decision-making process in the White House does not let most issues get up to the President. The Council thought opening up…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Jobs are pouring out of America; you see what's going on with all of the companies leaving our country, going to Mexico…

— Donald Trump

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,…

— Hermann Hesse

Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in…

— Nicholas Schmidt

The administration took care of a source of instability in Iraq. Envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was rushing for a…

— George W. Bush

It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too…

— Allen W. Wood

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

— Seneca the Younger

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

— Manuel Puig

“The essence of instability [in fundamental forces of nature] is that small fluctuations get amplified.”

— Max Tegmark

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

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

— Saul Bellow

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

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

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

— Franz Grillparzer

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Nawaz Sharif