Quotes About Unrest

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)

Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody;

People must have bread! People will grow angry without bread!

I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.

Would one not say that these lines had been written yesterday ? More than ever our age of unrest makes us the prey of impulses, and to the majority of our contemporaries, the robe, half green and half yellow (by recalling to them the worship of common sense), will become a fetish, more precious than all the amulets with which superstition loves to adorn logic, or to incorporate fantastic outline in the classic setting of beautiful jewels.

It was the 1990s, and the world was a mess.

In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ—that He is the living Bread and living Water—still, yet, and always the great Shield of safety in our lives.

So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in suppressing such manifestations. But when the dumb unrest grows into conscious expression and becomes almost universal, it necessarily affects all phases of human thought and action, and seeks its individual and social expression in the gradual transvaluation of existing values.

For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.

Isn't it a strange thing," he asked Barton, "that in every period of social unrest men have the notion that they can pass a law and suspend the operations of economic law?

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

If vampires and werewolves were walking around today, there would be chaos. People would be losing their minds.

The world is pretty messed up.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life — the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world.

you know you have the very same idea of sacredness of assumed responsibilities yourself. And you are right. Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life — the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world.

How could I compete with that? Candies and toys! I had string and glue and some very complicated dynamics going on at my station. I mean, when I was assigned to that table, no one happened to mention that it was a simmering hotbed of political unrest concerning the lower case r. A wicked web indeed.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Thomson remarked to a friend that "unless there were a European War to divert the current, we were heading for something very like revolution." He was not alone in feeling this way. "A good big war just now might do a lot of good in killing Socialist nonsense," one army officer confided in a letter, "and would probably put a stop to all this labor unrest.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.