Quotes About Instability

The world is a terrifying place these days. We're all operating right there on the edge of tilt, all the time. This shit can just happen. There are monsters around every corner. Pianos fall from the sky.

Everybody is shaky. If

What the neutral zone is and why it exists can be seen in figure 4.1. It is a time when all the old clarities break down and everything is in flux. Things are up in the air. Nothing is a given anymore, and anything could happen. No one knows the answers: one person says one thing and someone else says something completely different.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

The vast majority of French people who were not destitute lived under constant threat of becoming so, and were prepared to use violence to avoid such a fate. When they did, they terrified the narrow, secure social élites who in normal times dominated urban life and who never had to worry about the price of a four-pound loaf.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

Fragility comes in many forms

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

Petrarch declared that all money was unstable, whirling away "possibly due to the roundness of the coins," further elaborating that money won by gambling was the least stable of all.

When democracy gets old and tired, it demands a little chaos to refresh itself.

Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

The only thing on Earth you can count on is that there is nothing on Earth you can count on.

Your faith will abandon you in blink of an eye.

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

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

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.