Instability Quotes - Page 4

• Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.

  Jacob Zuma

  Hands, Growth, Matter

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• We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

  Robert Rubin

  Political, Imf, Delay

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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 tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Thinking, Sweat

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• The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.

  Fritjof Capra

  Creativity, Organization, Design

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

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Character, Weather, Attention

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.47, Penguin

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• I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Waiting, Care, Existence

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• 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 is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Men, Discipline

  'The Affluent Society' (1958) ch. 1, sect. 3

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• In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Balance, Decomposition

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.98, editionNEXT.com

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• 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 was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness.

  Mark Epstein

  Real, Independent, Dying

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• 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 of last resort, no global safety net, and of course, no global democracy. In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and are therefore prone to instability, inefficiency, and weak popular legitimacy.

  Dani Rodrik

  Safety, Political, Suffering

  Dani Rodrik (2012). “The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist”, p.13, OUP Oxford

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• When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

  Charles Baxter

  Writing, Air, Waiting

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• I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, War

  "Bill Gates Reveals Family Goes to Catholic Church: 'It Makes Sense to Believe in God'" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. March 14, 2014.

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• We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Degrees, World, Steps

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Talking, People, Community

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• The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.

  Greg Laurie

  Violence, Ends, End Times

  "Greg Laurie: Watered-Down Mainline Christianity Is a Sign of the End Times (Interview)". Interview with Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

  Alan Watts

  Crazy, Fall, Ideas

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• There's something profoundly liberating about giving, yet we don't do it often enough. It begs the question: why not? For some of us, our demanding schedules overtake our time to volunteer. For others, our fear of economic instability manifests a mindset dominated by pernicious lies like, "You can't afford to give" and "If you give, you won't have enough". However, truth of the matter is we simply cannot afford to not give back!

  Jen Lilley

  Lying, Volunteer, Giving

  "Count Your Blessings and Watch them Multiply" by Jen Lilley, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have to build coalitions, something that I did to take on the Iranian nuclear program, and what I will do as president to make sure that we defeat these terrorist networks.

  Hillary Clinton

  President, Nuclear, Attention

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Men, Europe

  "Networks Dodge Obama Linking ISIS Terror, Unrest in Ukraine to Events in Ferguson". www.newsbusters.org. September 24, 2014.

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• Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Imagination, Political

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a big complicated system through barter, through converting one commodity into another. You need a monetary system to operate. And the instability in that monetary system is devastating to the performance of the economy.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Needs, Complicated

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that there's no question that, in Alberta as the price of oil continues to drop, that there are families ... that are worried about the instability that that brings to the economy. And so that has to be more and more front and centre in terms of the work that we do as a government.

  Rachel Notley

  Thinking, Government, Oil

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.

  Norman Lock

  Reading, Writing, Comforting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

  T.C. Boyle

  Alcohol, Drug, Narcissistic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.

  Kate Zambreno

  Lazy, Wish, Nonfiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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