Upheaval Quotes

• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Our World, Doubt

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

  Carl Jung

  Our World, World, Consciousness

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sea, Depth, Satisfaction

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• Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Violence, Conflict, Daily Life

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• This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving, Revolution, Birth

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.98, Beacon Press

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• At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.

  Jill Stein

  Social, All Things

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

  Anouk Aimee

  Death, Children, Moving

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• 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 any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

  Robert Benchley

  Spring, Writing, Soul

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• In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.

  Martin Schulz

  People, Wish, Sincerity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Artfulness is not simple entertainment,
  especially during upheaval,
  unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Simple, Creative, Sacred

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  Karl Marx

  Sex, Progress, Ugly

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• In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Recovery, Common Humanity

  Remarks by the President on the Situation in Japan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2011.

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• I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

  Dylan Thomas

  Angel, Enquiry, Beast

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• The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Real, Fall, Memorable

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• 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 on with the future.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Powerful, Struggle, Past

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Civilization, World

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• Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Long, Would Be

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.62, Routledge

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• The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.

  William S. Burroughs

  Earthquakes, Mind, Age

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• 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 terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

  Josiah Strong

  Change, Europe, Earthquakes

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• 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 fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Country

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, 1948.

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• 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, our Nation has indeed survived.

  Nick Rahall

  Pain, War, September 11

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• The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Years, Political, Expansion

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• My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

  Conrad Veidt

  Jealousy, Mother, Brother

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• To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Taken, Florida, Environmental

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• What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

  Jung Chang

  War, Chinese, Levels

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