Quotes About Instability

Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).

The more urbanized, the more educated, and even the more enlightened the world becomes, counterintuitively, the more politically unstable it becomes, too.*42 This is what techno-optimists and those who inhabit the world of fancy corporate gatherings are prone to miss: They wrongly equate wealth creation—and unevenly distributed wealth creation at that—with political order and stability.

Gods are no more stable than men.

The women most readily drawn to Strike were, in Polworth's view, neurotic, chaotic and occasionally dangerous, and their fondness for the bent-nosed ex-boxer indicated a subconscious desire for something rocklike to which they could attach themselves like limpets.

She's like that, always shifting the goalposts. What was right one minute was wrong the next. You had to walk on eggshells, you really did.

instability, the discomfort of the relationship—feed back into the low self-esteem and self-doubt that triggered the over-involvement to start with. The only way out appears to be deeper enmeshment, getting so close to the SOP that those blowups won't happen. Soon the cycle hums, fully in place, with both parties pedaling as fast as they can.

he had no doubt that the earth would be a vastly different place—a place where the sword of Damocles hung above it by only the most slender thread, forever after.

There's never been a time in my life that I wasn't impatient, ecstatic one moment, morbid as hell another, and ready to be reckless almost any time.

Autumn nights are the most fickle: good and bad weather All in five days, and more than that in a month.

Personal relationships start unraveling, business partnerships begin to fall apart and your credibility decreases as you become known as "a loose cannon." Effective

Property is insecure. In this one phrase the whole history of Asia is contained.

I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life

The banker was strong because the railroads were weak, and however much Pierpont deplored railroad instability, he thrived on such chaos.

In "The Reynolds Pamphlet," Hamilton had exposed only his own folly. In the Adams pamphlet, he displayed both his own errant judgment and Adams's instability.

why there is something rather than nothing: nothing is unstable.

One day it seemed like a good idea, the next day it didn't. That kind of thing happened all the time, way back when, because strategy was fluid. Or because nobody had the faintest idea what they were doing.

13. Mañana habrá desaparecido (Gone Tomorrow)

A person never knows what is next—I don't, anyway. The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.

A person never knows what is next -- I don't, anyway. The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.

I ca'n't remember things as I used- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!

Maybe he would kill one of them for fun. Maybe not. Mood was everything.

Syria was one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

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.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.