State Instability Quotes

Coups usually follow national humiliation.

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.

We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.

A perfectly thriving state can, in a matter of months and even days, be transformed into an arena of fierce armed conflct by political, economic, informational, humanitarian, and other nonmilitary measures applied in coordination with the protest potential of the population.

The main challenge for American foreign policy in many places is not to influence relations between states but rather to influence events within states.

If Germany surrendered to the forces of revolution either of the Left or to Right the state of Europe [would be] full of very ominous prospects.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian Federation became what it is - you know, with no borders, with no budget, no money, and with huge problems starting with lack of food and so on and so forth.

Government is operating under uncertainty

Lunacy is always distressing, but sometimes it is dangerous; and when you get it manifested in the head of state, and it has become the policy of a great empire, it is about time that it should be ruthlessly put away.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

It's getting tougher and tougher to defeat ISIS, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.