Quotes About Unrest

I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.

It was as though the tremors of unrest jarred loose those who were not firmly attached to a place by love of land or family, and the swirling currents of dissension bore them onward, the first premonitory fragments of a slow-motion explosion that would shatter everything.

I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

This is an era of violent peace.

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

the Agitation.

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

The world has gone a bit mad.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

If what had happened in the past few months was not sensational enough

society had collapsed.

up they rose As from unrest; and, each the other viewing, Soon found their eyes how opened, and their minds How darkened. Innocence, that, as a veil, Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone; Just confidence, and native righteousness, And honour, from about them, naked left To guilty shame; He covered, but his robe Uncovered more.

when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

There is no more fertile ground for revolution than the educated unemployed

By the time of Santokh Singh's death Bhindranwale's men were known to have killed two policemen and ten civilians, attempted to murder a senior civil servant and planted a bomb in the office of a deputy inspector-general of police. There had been several other bomb explosions and attempts to derail trains, one successful. An airliner had been hijacked

Americans are now in disarray

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

The main difference in the speed of recovery between Argentina in post-2001 and Thailand in post-1997 crises is the exports. Fiscal discipline is necessary but not sufficient without export-driven economic growth. Too much debt can result in prolonged stagnation similar to the Japanese lost-decade of 1990s. With inflation risk on the rise, we could see more socioeconomic troubles and political unrest in economies with thin middle class. 2011-2012 will be challenging for many policy makers.