Instability Quotes - Page 6

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Ideas, Battle, Youth

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• Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.

  Martin Jacques

  Profound, Inability, Roles

  "Northern Rock's rescue is part of a geopolitical sea change" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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• The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Taste, Irregularity, Occasions

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.158

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• Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

  Van Jones

  Leadership, Nature, Reality

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• It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Population, Cost

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• Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

  Barack Obama

  People, President, Pathways

  "Politics and Foreign Aid: What Romney and Obama Can Learn from Huckabee and Lincoln" by Tom Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

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

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Symbolism, Want

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• With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Three, Legs, Four

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• Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Country, Effort, Political

  "Commentary: Yes, we can eradicate malaria" by Anthony S. Fauci, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2009.

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• Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Balance, Novelists, Thumbs

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8926, Delphi Classics

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• Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.

  George Soros

  Risk, Use, Credit

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• The feeling of reduced gravity and the limitations of the space suit resulted in a slow-motion movement. Perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Feelings, Movement

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability. Nobody is afraid that the money they place in the US is at risk of expropriation or of in some other way being taken away. For this safety, the wealth holders of the world are willing to accept a lower rate of return.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Taken, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

  Peter Drucker

  Accomplishment, Risk, Important

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• As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.

  Martin O'Malley

  Military, Roots, Appreciate

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Iraq, Levels

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Real, Land, Shadow

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.

  W. Brian Arthur

  Looks, Done, Dynamics

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• The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Country, Real, Differences

  Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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

  Peter Senge

  Patient, Produce, Sluggish

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.282, Random House

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• Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.

  Herbert Schiller

  Heart, Essence, Connections

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Country, Law, Play

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• When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

  Robert Kuttner

  Moving, Gains, Laissez Faire

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.85, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt Gödel's gifts might be aborted.

  Brian L. Silver

  Intellectual, Analysis, Might

  Brian L. Silver (2000). “The Ascent of Science”, p.506, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Strong, People

  Octavius Winslow (1858). “Midnight harmonies, or, Thoughts for the season of solitude & sorrow”, p.32

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