Quotes About Upheaval

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.

the Agitation.

Babies had a way of casually destroying things.  They had a lot in common with earthquakes and rabid dogs that way.

We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.

The 1960s were really a life-changing time.

The world has gone a bit mad.

In its purest form, a story starts with a character who lives in peace and stability. Suddenly that stability is disrupted:

Everything around us seems unscrewed, loosened, and out of joint. The fountains of the great deep appear to be breaking up. Ancient institutions are tottering and ready to fall. Social and religious systems are failing and crumbling away. Church and state both seem convulsed to their very foundations, and what the end of this convulsion may be no one can tell.

The Americans had almost destroyed themselves with their COVID mandates; failed wars in a part of the world they would never understand; race riots; political upheaval; and a border policy of which Gromyko's predecessors could only have dreamed. Russia

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

God has His reasons for allowing this great upheaval. Maybe He's asking us to join the fight against evil and help redeem this fallen world." "I don't have enough faith for this, Papa." "None of us do. All we can do is ask Him each day what He wants us to do." She nodded, keeping her tears at bay.

The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

She loved Manhattan and could not imagine living anywhere else, but her world was upside down now, and, well, there was nothing certain in her future.

hence the palace revolution that had accompanied Francis II's accession only seventeen months before was reversed.

If what had happened in the past few months was not sensational enough

If this were not enough, a volte-face had taken place in France itself.

Then the shit hit the fan.

monumental mess.

The revolution is not a tea party.