Acting Quote by Raymond E. Feist

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

— Richard Dawkins

Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that…

— Barack Obama

“all these complex systems have somehow acquired the ability to bring order and chaos into a special kind of balance. This balance point—often called…

— M. Mitchell Waldrop

The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society…

— Franz Josef Radermacher

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

— Hyman Minsky

Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

— William Eckhardt

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open…

— Rebecca Wells

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true,

— Daniel Okrent

Everyone knows that when things are out of balance, things go wrong.

— Genesis P-Orridge

“Imbalanced systems,whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.”

— Richard C. Schwartz

“When you are achieving in a system that is at odds with who you are—one that too often values style over substance, face time…

— Valerie Young

People don't like to see instability.

— Gladys Berejiklian