Quotes About Upheaval

He always entered the house as though he were entering it with the intention of tearing it down from inside

The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

sometimes, your world turns upside down, and you need somebody to show you how to walk on your hands before you can find your feet again.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Julia was like a tornado, and she left chaos wherever she went.

The year 1848 was the turning point at which modern history failed to turn.

In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.

Fact is, we're change addicts. We have an insatiable appetite for the new. All those changes that are roiling our world, they're our doing. We are the agents of upheaval. Unlike human beings, organizations are pretty much crap at change. That's why incumbents so often find themselves on the back foot. Today, we expect the newcomers to beat the geezers.

In the age of upheaval, the quantities of foresight and ingenuity required to run a large organization exceed the abilities of any single human being or small team—and the bar keeps going up. Simply put, bureaucratic structures ask more of leaders than they can deliver.

And each ripple builds and builds into the tidal wave of anarchy to which we are now doomed.

Countries with lots of unmarried young men are the most vulnerable to sudden upheavals - this is what fueled the Arab Spring.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

The chaos lies all within.

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The world is a mess.

Sometimes you got to mess stuff up to get change going.

We're a mess in Minnesota.

A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.

The time has come for the greatest revolution of all times.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

chaos doesn't come close to describing things.