Quotes About Upheaval

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

But change's always harsh on the loser. Nothing new.

The house is a place where things can go wrong.

it takes only a modest amount of disruption to create an inordinate amount of mayhem. It's not necessary to wreak all the destruction yourself. Just begin with a fair amount and man's stupidity and selfishness will do the rest.

Could the Comte de Vandenesse have seen himself, three years later, the brother-in-law of a Sieur Ferdinand DU Tillet, so-called, he might not have married his wife; but what man of rank in 1828 foresaw the strange upheavals which the year 1830 was destined to produce in the political condition, the fortunes, and the customs of France?

when the shit was heading fanwards.

The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption is built into the fabric of democracy.

Aquél fue el último gran baile de la Rusia imperial. La mecha de la revolución no tardaría en encenderse y sacudir los cimientos del imperio.

When kind men grow angry, things are about to change.

I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.

Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose.

The center was not holding.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

The revolution does not need historians.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed ...

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.

My parents were divorced when I was seven years old and later we kids moved all over first with my mother and then with my father.

You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.

If at any point something goes askew, then disorder spreads, chaos opens beneath our feet.

Just take a look around. The whole universe is…let's say it's in a transitional phase…" And they pointed to the sky, where the constellations have become unrecognizable, here clotted, there rarefied, the celestial map in upheaval, stars exploding one after the other, while more stars emit a final flicker and die.