Habits Quote by George Hammond

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

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

— John Boyd Orr

“A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much…

— Bertrand Russell

“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most…

— Walter Wink

“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history,…

— William James

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended…

— Walter Raleigh

“The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.”

— Gene Sharp

“So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in…

— Emma Goldman

“As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes to be…

— Charles Emmerson

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

— Octavia Butler

As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic,…

— Wole Soyinka

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...

— Seneca the Younger