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Quotes About Unrest

The Tang went into decline and people became discontented. There was hunger and unrest, and as is common at such times, the troublemakers looked to place the blame on the foreigners.
~ Amitav Ghosh
That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Chaos is the penance for leisure.
~ Amy Tan
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
~ John Boyd Orr
Remove a dictator and watch chaos grow.
~ John Burnett
A revolution in itself is not a blessing.
~ John C. Calhoun
A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
~ John Dryden
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.
~ Edward Gorey
Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Privatization of PSU entity is a curse to humanity as it eventually leads to the unbridled growth of unrest, unemployment rate, inflation and social evils like poverty & depravity in the society.
~ Anuj Somany
The protest against the unjust laws and injustice fails or does not bear any fruitful result when it is led by those who have hidden vested interest and this creates more social unrest & distrust in the public mind towards the authority.
~ Anuj Somany
The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
~ Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
~ Aristotle
England has gone off the rails.
~ Jodie Turner-Smith
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
~ Vladimir Lenin
It is most difficult to put your finger on a single spot of the world-map that is not being torn and uptorn by unrest in one shape or another.
~ S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
The whole world itself is going through a unique kind of neurosis, which was not there in the past. This is simply because modern man has stopped using his body to a large extent.
~ Sadhguru
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
~ Havelock Ellis
He was intolerant of quiet," says Walter Map, "and did not hesitate to disturb almost half of Christendom.
~ John Guy
What I am trying to say is that for a few minutes I had what almost felt like a vision: that there was deep, deep unrest in the country and that the whisperings of a civil war seemed to move around me like a breeze I could not quite feel but could sense. We got our ice cream and we left, and I told William what I had felt and he said, "I know.
~ Elizabeth Strout
The problem with this war is not the war itself, it is the mayhem it brings.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
There is no greater evil than anarchy.
~ Sophocles
We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.
~ Don Young
The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.
~ W. S. Merwin