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Quotes About Unrest

To fish in troubled waters.
~ Matthew Henry
There is a lot of negativity, turmoil throughout the world.
~ Tulsi Kumar
Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice." Rebellion?
~ Suzanne Collins
People have gone wild," Cressida murmurs. We
~ Suzanne Collins
you can feel something in the air, the rolling boil of a pot about to run over. Not
~ Suzanne Collins
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.
~ Peter Riegert
Both choices led to social unrest: the Jacquerie (France, 1358), the Revolt of Ciompi (Florence, 1378), the Peasants' Revolt (England, 1381), the Catalonian Rebellion (Spain, 1395), and dozens of flare-ups in the German states.
~ Charles C. Mann
the breakdown of law and order brought on by constantly stirred bitter resentments almost invariably leads to more suffering among the less fortunate.
~ Thomas Sowell
Therefore, it is in our mutual interests to cause unrest and chaos within America. The new American president is a weak man.
~ Tom Clancy
Prosperity was the handmaiden of peace, and the assassin of discontent.
~ Tom Clancy
The back and forth of life often leaves us struggling to put our fingers on the root of our unhappiness and lack of peace. We rely heavily on coping mechanisms to help us shake the unrest we feel inside.
~ Kim Anderson
1863 Draft Riots:
~ Carol Anderson
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.
~ Daphne du Maurier
We live in ugly times.
~ David Byrne
Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.
~ John Lithgow
Wars and rumours of wars.
~ Matthew
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.
~ Douglas MacArthur
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
there was an orgy of vandalism and looting
~ Niall Ferguson
We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Le plus excellent symbole du peuple, c'est le pavé. On marche dessus jusqu'à ce qu'il vous tombe sur la tête.
~ Victor Hugo
An undercurrent of war was rumbling within her.
~ Victor Hugo
This election is tearing the country apart as it is.
~ Kyle Mills