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Quotes About Disruption

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
~ James A. Baldwin
In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
~ Mother Teresa
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
~ Salman Rushdie
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.
~ Mark Sheppard
Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.
~ William Shakespeare
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
~ Agnes Repplier
Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.
~ George Will
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
~ Wallace Stevens
All great ideas are dangerous.
~ Oscar Wilde
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
~ Samuel Beckett
When the world came to, it came, not to its senses, but to its madness.
~ Helen O'Reilly
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
~ Lord Byron
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
~ Daniil Kharms
The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.
~ Saint-John Perse
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.
~ Lucie Brock-Broido
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
~ Alain Badiou, Metapolitics
Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.
~ Christopher Michael Cillizza
Donald Trump turned politics on its head.
~ Paul Ryan
No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind
~ Karl Marx
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
~ Margaret Deland
It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.
~ Alfred Goodwin
It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.
~ Clay Shirky