22 Upheaval Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

Great Soul Spring Other Easily Must Great Literature Come Author Upheaval Handy Any Happens Literature Which Then Works Present Adapted

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime). Bhagat Singh

Destruction Better Revolution Society State Complete Strife Systematic Must Reconstruction Clear Merely New Implies Make Does Affairs Existing Upheaval After Regime Mean Necessarily Basis Programme Adapted

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. Robert D. Kaplan

Terrorism Poverty Development Causes Upheaval

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation. Anand Giridharadas

There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding. Brian Greene

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. C. L. R. James

Country Proletariat Undergone Known Greatest Upheaval Social Ever Profound

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

Environmental Death Change Action Our Threaten Could Pound Taken Clear Knell True Over Global Global Warming Gorilla Climate Climate Change Coming South South Florida Effects Upheaval Room Urgent Century Warming Everglades Florida

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood. Dinaw Mengestu

Time Political Parents Those Circumstances About Reluctant Never Had Talk Because Came Were Loss Lot Left Upheaval American Childhood Which Much Ethiopia Large Largely Things

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

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos. Jenny Zhang

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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

Great Change Society Great Change Earth Earthquake Ranks Various Like Terrible Without Fixed Upheaval Social Europe Strata

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

Will Cruelty Society Otherwise Marked Ought Further Totally Another Upheaval Revolutions Just Chinese Wars Level Reject

We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41. Lloyd Blankfein

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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

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In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. Lynn Coady

Revolution Late Everywhere Focusing Housework Feminists Were Upheaval Sixties Ridiculed

Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom. Randa Haines

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Doing research for 'Penumbra,' I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more it sounded like... the Internet today. There was crazy competition and upheaval; there were constant arguments about new techniques, new materials, new machines; and, of course, there were fortunes to be made. Robin Sloan

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The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds. Sabine Baring-Gould

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