Quotes About Stability

Radicalism is a luxury of stability; we may dare to change things only when things lie steady under our hands.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

In the memorable words of Professor Roy Baumeister, 'Life is change that yearns for stability

I am as sane as you are.

He aimed for them to stay put like a tree or a stand of corn. Because if He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn't He put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.

When [God] aims for something to be always a-moving, He makes it longways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. . . . [I]f He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would. Anse in As I Lay Dying, pp. 34-5

The laborer likewise gains by carrying on his labor in a strong, highly civilized, and well-governed State far more than he could gain with equal industry on the frontier or in the midst of anarchy. He

A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy.

Everything, even the dirt, was poised.

The status quo feels comfortable and steady because much of the choice has been squeezed out. You have your routines, your ways of doing things.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

If I am honest...I will say that I simply need a warm, dry place to live. I want enough food to eat, clothes, and shoes that will protect me from the cold. I want calmness and order. More than anything, I want to feel safe in my bed.

Es como si hubiera estado en la cuerda floja, tratando de mantener el equilibrio, y ahora, por primera vez, pisara terreno firme.

Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often. As a man's marriage becomes less stable, his levels of testosterone rise. With divorce, his testosterone levels rise even more. And single men tend to have higher levels of testosterone than married men.65 The

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

Skepticism, if by that we mean cautiousness, is the balance wheel of civilization.

Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people.

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.

yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

What Nixon sought throughout the Cold War was a stable international order for a world filled with nuclear weapons.

Em período de convulsões generalizadas, um país onde seja preservada a autoridade doméstica fica em boa posição para explorar o caos dos Estados vizinhos em benefício de objetivos internacionais mais elevados.

É a pureza, e não a estabilidade, o princípio fundador desta conceção de ordem mundial.