Quotes About Upheaval

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

I always end up in these volatile situations.

Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot bear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. William Butler Yeats                   "The Second Coming"  

Chaos doesn't do, it undoes.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

These Anti-Establishment Auteurs were as sorry to see the old studio system go busy as the French Revolutionaries were to see Marie Antoinette vacate Versailles

The revolution revolutionizes the counter revolution

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings.

The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures. Burke, speech in the House of Commons (1790)

It's the World's Gone Crazy Cotillion

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

The world-view of the poets centred in their experience of human destiny itself and of the way in which it could be overcome through that spirit of heroism in the midst of tragedy which had grown to maturity in the hard struggles of a century filled with inward upheaval and threatened with constant danger from without.

Desperate times calls for rambunctious behavior" -Mental Hell

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.