Ashraf Ghani Quotes

Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.

I want the reader to be in the shoes of everyday people who are facing incredible dangers and wonder if they would make the same choices.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Pray that we can come out alive.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

I don't like change that much.

People don't like to see instability.

I don't like change.

When everything else is looking so grim and the world is changing so fast that it's scary, one thing that remains consistent is kindness.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.