Quotes About Upheaval

Yup. That's when all hell broke loose.

Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody;

Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.

spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning.

My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Revolutions are infinite.

revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution.

every routine is an invitation for disruption, every hierarchy an invitation for revolution.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

It was the 1990s, and the world was a mess.

Every great change is preceded by chaos

Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

I go away for a few years and the whole fucking world is upside down Jules said angrily. Buildings are missing. You get strip-searched every time you go to someone's office. Everybody sounds stoned because they're emailing people the whole time they're talking to you. Tom and Nicole are with different people...And now my rock-and-roll sister and her husband are hanging around with Republicans. What the fuck - Jules Jones

The whole fucking world is upside down. Buildings are missing. You get strip-searched everytime you go to someone's office. Everybody sounds stoned, because they're emailing people the whole time they're talking to you. Tom and Nicole are with different people...and now my rock-and-roll sister and her husband are hanging around with Republicans. What the fuck!

I'm a mess," she said. "By every sense of the word.

In times of revolution nothing is more powerful than the fall of symbols.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

populations at scale. There is greater upheaval still to come. In 2019, Google announced it had achieved "quantum supremacy"—a computing breakthrough so powerful that a math problem a supercomputer would need ten thousand years to solve could be cracked by its machine in just three minutes and twenty seconds.

It's when we refuse to change in the face of upheaval that we fail.

In every household the Revolution had emptied the cooking-pot.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

The world is pretty messed up.