Quotes About Upheaval

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society had collapsed.

And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need.

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.

He didn't get it. That's exactly why I needed my Maker's Mark. You can't throw my life into turmoil, and then screw me out of my bourbon too.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

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

There's going to be a period of violent upheaval, which will impact upon our sense of security, our values and beliefs. The broadcast is about to be cut off. You can't rely upon the messenger anymore. But then, you never could. Rely upon yourself instead, and those you know and trust. Stand up and be counted. Be resourceful, be creative. Things can't ever be what they were, so don't try to go back. Don't numb yourself to life. Try to enjoy yourself. It's later than you think...

The war continues with no sign that it will end [...]. It's like an avalanche, started by a single gunshot, but which roars down the mountain more loudly than a thousand canons.

What's happened to the world? she was thinking. Everything has turned terrible...and the bits that aren't terrible have gone mad. I don't understand anything anymore.

Regionalism, nationalism, tumultuous new patterns in economic and social life, as well as broad intellectual upheaval were all well advanced before the appearance of Protestantism.

Hence when lightning fires the arch of heaven, and thunders rock the ground, when furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, and ocean, groaning from his lowest bed, heaves his tempestuous billows to the sky; amid the mighty uproar, while below the nations tremble, Shakespeare looks abroad from some high cliff, superior, and enjoys the elemental war.

whirlwind of war.

Americans are now in disarray

The Götterdämmerung of the bourgeois world is approaching.

But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

Just thinking about all the drama gets my tubes in a twist.

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

Like some crazed masochistic yo-yo

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

some ways, this is the most difficult aspect of the role; it demands that Mariela portray a wealthy, professional, and mature woman, accustomed to control and decorous behavior, whose world has just been upended by her own child. One of Volpe's favorite things

calamity of their own making.