Top 240 Instability Quotes & Sayings

Diplomacy has been exhausted .. Continued instability in the Balkans threatens important U.S. national interests,.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

People don't like to see instability.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.

I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

I've found that instability from growth comes in waves.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

The administration took care of a source of instability in Iraq. Envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was rushing for a nuclear weapon to compete against Iran. My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the correct decision in my judgment. We didn't find the weapons we thought we would find or the weapons everybody thought he had. But he was a significant source of instability.

The financial instability and sometimes insecurity that families feel, deeply motivates how they respond politically.

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

Torture remains unacceptable and unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security.

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Social immobility is driven by family background, instability in childhood and often by parents who don't know how to give children the right start in life.

Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world. People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections. But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

I think terrorists are trying to create instability in Turkey. They're trying to break Turkey apart from where she belongs, which is the Western world. They're trying to scare the people in Turkey, and they're trying to create instability in the country.

Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

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

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

The country is indebted, cloaked by an instability that discards the possibility of development and leaves it hostage to foreign financial markets.

England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.

Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.

Everybody wants to see Ukraine - one of the largest countries in Europe - stable with a stable economic situation, because instability in Ukraine can bring instability in the whole region.

There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.

We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

It's hard to throw the football when you have some instability at quarterback or if you don't have the weapons around you.

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.