Upheaval Quotes

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

  Dylan Thomas

  Angel, Enquiry, Beast

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• As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

  Al Gore

  Party, President, Together

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• As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

  James Levine

  Needs, Generations, World

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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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• I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

  Dylan Thomas

  Writing, Angel, Self

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Development, Poverty, Causes

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• If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

  Kelly Ripa

  Feel Better, Emotional, Feels

  "Kelly Ripa: Fab at 40". Interview with David A. Keeps, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 6, 2010.

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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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