Quotes About Upheaval

This sad vicissitude of things.

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Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV.

All it takes is an instant. To overturn your entire existence.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief

Whenever there was an upheaval in some foreign land, there would be a procession of refugees from that land filing through Emmanuel's pulpit, with quivers full of piety, singing ballads of a sad and lowering sort like 'Russia, Holy Russia, I will die to set you free', and telling a sackful of stories about their narrow escape from the grip of the half-dozen or so godless persecutors who were at the bottom of all this trouble.

Civilizaton rests on the assumption that the universe is kindly disposed towards mankind and intended for our benefit. Imagine the upheaval were it to become widespread knowledge that that is not so.

Normalcy has taken leave of the galaxy.

It was a violent breakthrough against an older social structure.

In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

our sexual feelings, in which we see the greatest upheaval and lack of inhibition and control, belong to the emotions. Is that right?

Explosive bifurcation is the sudden transition that wrenches the system out of one order, and into another.

That things are status quo is the catastrophe.

This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink, and you attempted late the previous night to make stew out of a pot holder. Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought you left science the previous afternoon. Entertainment seems to have been knocked over and spilled on everything.

Well, there's a shitstorm coming, Hayden. And we're going to be right in the middle of it.

America is on the point of bursting into flames

Lincoln gives a lesson in adaptive leadership even to those of us who will never advocate for compensated emancipation. Facing an uproar over the cost of the government paying slaveholders for their slaves, Lincoln showed the COST OF THE STATUS QUO, which is generally overlooked by those who oppose change.

All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

So punk wasn't about decay, punk was about the apocalypse. Punk was about annihilation.

You've caused a lot of damage here

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.