Upheaval Quotes

79 quotes by 74 authors

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. — Anouk Aimee
Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical… — Paul Hawken
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. — C L R James
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a… — Josiah Strong
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain… — Georges Cuvier
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it… — Fritz Sauckel
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution,… — Nick Clooney
The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will… — Michael R. Rose
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get… — Louise J. Kaplan
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs.… — Swami Vivekananda
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001,… — Nick Rahall
For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this… — Ronald Reagan
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance… — Emile M. Cioran
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only… — Georg Simmel
Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in… — Thomas Sankara
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon… — Stefan Zweig
Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans,… — David Duke
... non-White Arab birthrates will make White Jewish people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of non-Whites Arabs. A social… — David Duke
After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee. — Elizabeth Bowen
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of… — Robert Benchley

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