Stability Quotes - Page 28

• The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

  Bruce Sterling

  Accountability, Four, Honest

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• The people of Cyprus have sent a strong message...of stability, credibility and change.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Strong, People, Cyprus

  "Greek Cypriots elect Nicos Anastasiades as president" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2013.

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• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Struggle, Loss, Ukraine

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• The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

  George Bernard Shaw

  True Or False, Belief, Statesmen

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• While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Numbers

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• The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

  Barry Commoner

  Suicidal, Environmental, Warning

  Barry Commoner (2014). “The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology”, p.108, Knopf

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• Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports
  this view.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Children, Mean, Pride

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.130, Take Root Media

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• The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Block, Issues, Keys

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• Stability is not the way of the world.

  Paul Singer

  World, Way

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• That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Forever, Achievement

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• I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

  Annette Bening

  Needs, Certain, Shows

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

  Anthony Mason

  Country, War, Emotional

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• No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Iraq, Limits, Achieve

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• The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

  Lester R. Brown

  Country, Government, Causes

  "Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization" by Lester R. Brown, www.scientificamerican.com. May 2009.

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• Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

  Gordon Brown

  Years, Discipline, Together

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• The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

  Alan Johnson

  Government, Office, Long

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• If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Rights, Minorities

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• Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

  Jack Kingston

  Love, Children, Husband

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• Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Matter, Priceless, Reminders

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• The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

  John F. Kennedy

  Recovery, Presidential, Prosperity

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.43, Best Books on

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• The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

  Chuck Hagel

  Rights, Play, Democracy

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• The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

  Michael Polanyi

  Enlightenment, Belief, Process

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• Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.

  Dan Millman

  Creating, Becoming, Energy

  Dan Millman (2008). “Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, Taken, America

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• A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Character, Government

  Simon Bolivar's letter from Jamaica, Summer 1815.

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