Quotes About Upheaval

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre.

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.

Lurching from cataclysm to disaster and from misfortune to calamity

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.

there's gonna be a riot before this thing is over. A riot, or worse. Folks don't realize how fragile the social order is, I'm telling you.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

Earthquake report: Walls are tumbling everywhere!

She knew only that the evening before had been like some kind of nightmare in which everything that could have gone wrong had done so.

The earth started shaking.

The most important result of the encounter [in the preceding anecdote] is the scholar's startling discovery of the roundness of the earth . . . Instinctively realizing the connection between the foreigner's presence, the roundness of the earth, and future changes and upheavals, he finally announces, Yes, the earth is round, the women will start to think, and as soon as they begin to think, they will become shameless.

shambles in her sternum.

This upheaval came while the region was still recovering from the shock of the Islamic revolution in Iran, which radically reshaped the strategic map of the Middle East and Central Asia.

From the vantage point of history, however, it is clear that most of these operations actually weakened American security. They cast whole regions of the world into upheaval, creating whirlpools of instability from which undreamed-of threats arose years later.

Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: "dogs and cats living together Ã¢â'¬Â¦ mass hysteria!

The downfall of order brings good to none.

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.

Hester thought about the political upheaval gripping the country and said, "These are serious times." "Yes, they are, which is why it's important to seek out humor and beauty whenever possible. If we don't, we'll all be buried beneath the weight of the misery.

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

At times of economic upheaval and with pressures on livelihoods, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful. In the United Kingdom, we saw that resentment writ large during the E.U. referendum campaign.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

The townsfolk in their darkened rooms were dazed as if by some cataclysm, some devastating earthquake, against which all wisdom and all resistance is of no avail. Such a feeling is produced every time the established order of things is upset, when security is destroyed and everything is hitherto protected by the laws of man or nature is suddenly at the mercy of wild unreasoning brutality.

For the same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of man or of Nature are at the mercy of unreasoning, savage force.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.