Quotes About Upheaval

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Autumn passed, and winter came, and events of little consequence caused great commotions.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Males and females are in a state of gender upheaval and confusion.

How could educated Americans have denied the effect of such persistent prejudice in distorting the southern class system? The reason is actually rather obvious: a fear of unleashing genuine class upheaval

Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.

You do remember," continues Semple, "that they turned overnight when the Shah fell and the Ayatollah came to power? You do remember that it happens that quickly?

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

the country was in upheaval and the townships were on the brink of open warfare, white life went on placidly and undisturbed.

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

A villain walks in and destroys something.

Useless, like a revolution.

What most likely is upon us is not a revolutionary terror, but a counter-revolutionary terror implemented by disgusted revolutionaries.

Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to be nailed down.

You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.

Adam and Eve. What through a revolution was effected, must through a revolution be overthrown.

They had entered the great upheaval because all doors were closed to them and had come out of it with new fortunes and freshly minted titles. He had lost almost everything but not given up liberty.

If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they'll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.

But behind the superficial appearance of a time of radical upheaval, most governments and ordinary people simply did not experience the Belle Époque in the way today's wistful novelists, TV producers and cultural historians present

The good which proceeds from a false basis (and such a case can happen in times of upheaval) is a very real evil for the entire society. It encourages the factious, not in this respect, that they search for the good, but rather because the deceitful appeal of that good delivers over to them virtuous men and makes them their accomplices.

The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.