Quotes About Upheaval

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

So much has happened it's as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down.

You look like you were chewed up by a wolf and shit down the wrong side of the mountain. What's wrong?

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

who went on to write one of Louis XVI and a good synography of Robespierre. They

Unsettle the mind; destroy the balance. Destroy the balance; obliterate the man.

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

It's an auspicious night for the overthrow of regimes.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

never in history, past or present, had an autocratic regime handed over power with so little upheaval or bloodshed.

The problem with this war is not the war itself, it is the mayhem it brings.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

The status quo sucks.

Sometimes it upset her gravity.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Even in my own time and in my own life, I have witnessed a revolution.

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.