Quotes About Upheaval

Sometimes I wonder if they live in a state of apathy or ignorance, or if they are passive, but when I consider what continues to exist inside Tibet, even after such violent upheaval, it is resistance that comes to mind, not inaction. I have come to equate concrete action as resistance. It is harder to define their quiet refusal to change, and their resilience because I have not been taught to acknowledge what comes without manifestations in word or action.

burn it all down.

before there can be change there must be discontent.

Such is the totalitarian task of communism. Indeed, the textbook definition of totalitarianism, which I have scribbled on the chalkboard every fall semester at Grove City College since 1997, is to fundamentally transform—specifically, to seek to fundamentally transform human nature via some form of political-ideological-cultural upheaval.

That, of course, was when everything went wrong and the whole world crashed down around my ears.

We're going to reinvent not just government but history. Torch the past.

And when I love thee not, chaos is come again.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows.

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down--for the novelty of the thing.

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down—for the novelty of the thing.

The multitude is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down - for the novelty of the thing.

At this signal, the world turns upside down.

It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.

I don't feel calm at all. I am a maelstrom of emotions. All I want to do is scream.

It was actually a great night until it all went to shit.

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

The only contribution of any value a private citizen can make towards the elucidation of a National upheaval is to record his own sensations.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

Life's a roller coaster, and you never know when it's going to take a turn.

A new broom sweeps clean!

No—what threatened ancient Atlantis was an upheaval of everything it stood for, and our records tells us, the ruling elites made it clear they would literally die and let everyone else on the planet die with them rather than give up their power and their lifestyle.