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Quotes About Upheaval

People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
~ Isabel Wilkerson
Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Legends from different peoples living in all corners of the Earth seem to tell essentially the same story—in the distant past, certain individuals with "godlike" powers molded mankind into a civilized state following a period of cataclysmic upheaval.
~ Jim Marrs
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
~ Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
~ Fidel Castro
Jesus thrown everything off balance.
~ Flannery O'Connor
And then the storm of shit begins.
~ Roberto Bolano
If we sit secure this hour, this day, it is because the thin walls of the law stand between us and evil. A jolt of the earth, a revolution, an invasion or even a violent upset in our own government can reduce all to chaos, leaving civilized man naked and exposed.
~ Louis L'Amour
All the pent-up frustrations produced by the accelerated change of the late nineteenth century were vented in spontaneous, often violent dissent.
~ Ron Chernow
The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible …." So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.
~ Ronald Wright
At times of great upheaval when the wind blows and the tide of history surges, cool heads are needed to navigate a path to calmer waters.
~ Salman Rushdie
I feel like I'm standing in the wake of a volcano erruption.
~ Alice Sebold
my man world will blow up
~ Allen Ginsberg
Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
~ Ambrose Bierce
He always told me that to change the world you must first burn it down.
~ Joe Abercrombie
As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life.
~ George Zimmerman
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
~ Milovan ?ilas
Things are messed up in the world, that's all.
~ E. Lockhart
Wars and alarums unto nations wide.
~ Edmund Spenser
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
~ Anouk Aimee
The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
~ Anthony D'Angelo
I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.
~ Nigel Farage
People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.
~ Eric Andre
The world tends toward chaos, you know," Cassidy said. "I'm just helping it along.
~ Robyn Schneider