#stability

Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#country #develop #forces #itself #need

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

— David Korten

#enormous #global #global economy #instability #losers

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

— Polly Toynbee

#influence #instability #lives #makes #people

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#mental-health #mood-instability #life

Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It's their favorite word, next to 'power.' 'Gotta stabilize the political situation in Southeast Asia, gotta stabilize oil production and consumption, gotta stabilize student opposition to the government' and so forth. Stabilization to them means order, uniformity, control. And that's a half-witted and potentially genocidal misconception. No matter how thoroughly they control a system, disorder invariably leaks into it. Then the managers panic, rush to plug the leak and endeavor to tighten the controls. Therefore, totalitarianism grows in viciousness and scope. And the blind pity is, rigidity isn't the same as stability at all. True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#order #rigidity #stability #totalitarianism #totalitarianism

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#case #global #guarantor #important #important role

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. ↗

— Haniel Long

#best #bound #derive #family #fear

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. ↗

— Li Peng

#active role #am #cause #china #contribution

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#asia #continuous #cross #efforts #eventually

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#among #budget #budget deficits #countries #deficits