Instability Quotes

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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and… — Abdallah II
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism.… — G. Stanley Hall
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS,… — Bob Geldof
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in… — Fritjof Capra
If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model… — Edward S. Herman
Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the… — Gordon R. Sullivan
You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let me tell you,… — John F. Kerry
When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible. — Immanuel Wallerstein
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always… — Thomas Jefferson
To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of… — William E. Rees
You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent,… — Liam Neeson
Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it.… — Hyman Minsky
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable â€¦ A representative democracy, where the right of election is well… — Alexander Hamilton
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or… — Zbigniew Herbert
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich… — Poul Hartling
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which… — Mark Epstein
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area… — Timothy Geithner
Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender… — Dani Rodrik

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