Quotes About Upheaval

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

The thing is, I suppose," he said, "that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.

All my signposts had gone up in one blinding, dizzying explosion [...] none of the scenery looked familiar anymore.

He picked out a card, examined it, tucked it back. "The thing is, I suppose," he said, "that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath." And looking up smiling, pushing his glasses up his nose: "And with all that philosophizing, I've forgotten whose go it was. Did I just put . . .

She wasn't that smart after all. Susanna, of all people, should have realized how those great upheavals can crack bedrock, shift tectonic plates, transform the landscape beyond recognition.

The thing is (…) that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.

People like death and mayhem.

Turmoil accompanies every great change.

Everything has changed for the worse." - Cery

Protestors? At a funeral?

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

No army can stop an idea whose time has come

Les révolutions sont de magnifiques improvisatrices. Un peu échevelées quelquefois.

This very slight change had worked a revolution.

In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.

They upheld everything till the day when they overthrew everything. Their instinct was to give a decisive push to everything that tottered. In their eyes, as they had been brought into service on condition that there should be solidity, to waver was to betray them. They were numbers, they were force, they were fear. Hence the daring of baseness.

In the past days, she'd come to understand the importance of upheaval. The tallest mountains were created by violence and chaos; like them, a woman's independence was born of fire.

What has happened to us? She asked. To this country? The world has gone mad, Jacob murmured.

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Revolutions are not made with rose water.

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.