Quotes About Upheaval

The world is brimming with plaster replicas, and the point is to smash them to bits, to create an upheaval so acute it cannot be anticipated or resisted.

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

The world is going crazy, Karl. And hen the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

Kiedy siÄ™ robi rewolucjÄ™, to siÄ™ rozpierdala wszystko, nie oglÄ…dajÄ…c siÄ™ na konsekwencje.

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions and institutions, whereas I was rebelling against the upheaval and uncertainty in my family.

This is the age of disruption.

Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary.

Hell's broken loose.

And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.

breaking tradition always comes with a noise like mountains falling.

Staying close to the awesome splendor of nature is a habit of all great masters to remain inspired, focused and joyful in an era of tectonic change and immense upheaval. (They are also alone a lot, because rising to your greatest creative state only occurs in isolation.)

Then the fit hit the Shan.

Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of an old English ballad, "The World Turned Upside Down

And yet rapid change brings chaos as well as progress.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.

you can't make tragedies without social instability.

You can't make tragedies without social instability.