Quotes About Disruption

It is a fairly general rule that the picturesque is based on someone else's inconvenience

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

The world doesn't just jump out of its axis on its own.

If we are going to talk about how undocumented immigrants impact our society, we ought to first address how our national policies have disrupted their lives. Above all, solidarity with the immigrant poor should seek to know them not as statistics, but as human beings who endure extraordinary hardship and trauma in their struggle just to survive—especially since the structural causes of their impoverishment lie on our side of the border.

You're a fucking aberration, sweetheart.

One minute, he thought, you're allowed the illusion that things are pretty much the way they've always been and always will be. Next time you turn around, some pinhead rips the world out from under you, and the weirdness starts pouring in from every direction …

Shocked, the teacher rushed out and brought back the headmistress. Throughout the rest of the period, both of them tried to figure out who set off the bomb and gave us lectures on our rowdy behaviour.

done it. However, just prior to the teacher's arrival, someone had a brainwave. He planted a Diwali bomb with a

The clock strikes one that just struck two – Some schism in the sum; A sorcerer from Genesis Has wrecked the pendulum.

Breakthrough solutions start with reframed questions, and we are in need of breakthrough solutions in many, many realms.

Slipstream – sorry, infernokrusher - takes a cut-throat razor to the hackneyed clichés of both strange and mundane genres. It cannibalises them, retrofits them, treats them the way Godzilla treats Tokyo, the Burroughs treats Interzone. Smash and grab. Cut up and fold in.

children being the enemies of plans and also the enemies of anything new besides themselves.

If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.

Too young to bring about change, we brought about disturbance.

Song and dance are explosion and interruption, and sometimes the only way to keep up with what's happening.

Strategy is revolution. Everything else is tactics.

Lawrence Freedman

Cable TV was also born of a kind of piracy. When

And what about motor-cars?' 'So much the better,' replied the Great Authority: 'they will no longer be able to run in the streets.

Theater is like the leopards, Clem told Diggs. It disrupts the status quo, she tried. Until its ideas bring about lasting change by getting incorporated in society. Maybe. Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy. She's good at that. But if we're talking expedience, law has it all over art, bambina.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

Seventy-seven percent of teachers admit that their teaching would be more effective if they did not have to spend so much time dealing with disruptive students (Public Agenda, 2004).

They have sex so loud it scares our dog. I wanted to call you about it, but my wife says it's not a crime. Is it?

Rispetto a quello che stava succedendo nel mondo reale, la decadenza sembrava un vezzo. Quindi il punk andava oltre la decadenza: il punk era l'apocalisse. Era l'annientamento. Non funzionava più niente, e allora tanto valeva passare direttamente all'Apocalisse.