Stability Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

  Boethius

  Heaven, Lasts, Admire

  Boethius (1999). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.52, OUP Oxford

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• 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 practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.

  Aldo Leopold

  Integrity, Spring, Practice

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• How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Brain, Continuity

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• No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  James Madison

  Government, Order, Long

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.305, Cambridge University Press

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• Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

  Desmond Tutu

  Peace, War, Gun

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• I arise today
  Through the strength of heaven:
  Light of sun
  Brilliance of moon
  Splendor of fire
  Speed of lightning
  Swiftness of wind
  Depth of sea
  Stability of earth
  Firmness of rock.

  Saint Patrick

  Nature, Moon, Fire

  "Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century". Book by Bernard McGinn, Jean Leclercq, John Meyendorff, 1986.

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• Id always assumed that by 40 Id have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

  Deborah Copaken

  Careers, Income, Half

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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 ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

  Wendy Williams

  Ocean, Normal, Things Change

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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