Best Unrest Sayings
88 Unrest quotes by 82 unique authors
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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
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Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part…
— Tom Vilsack
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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see…
— Clive Barker
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We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and…
— Daphne du Maurier
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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;…
— Robert E. Howard
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If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person…
— Dalai Lama
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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
— Diane Ackerman
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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…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live…
— John Keats
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I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between…
— Sylvia Browne
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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's…
— John Keats
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Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is…
— Saul Alinsky
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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…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity…
— Josef Pieper
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You were in Sweden?" Boomer asked. "No," I said. "The trip got called off at the last minute. Because of political the unrest" "In Sweden?"…
— David Levithan
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Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope…
— James Thomson
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There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.
— Julian Barnes
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Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and…
— George MacDonald
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Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast, And hides the…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
— Albert Camus
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That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart,…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.
— Kofi Annan
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Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
— Stephen Hawking
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