Upheaval quotes

  • Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.
    -- Adolf Hitler

    #Hate #Hysteria #Upheaval

  • Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
    -- Brian Greene

    #Upheaval #Mathematics #Century

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

    #Country #Profound #Upheaval

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

    #Simple #Creative #Upheaval

  • Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.
    -- Edward Weston

    #Art #Upheaval #Photographer

  • The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.
    -- Jac Holzman

    #Doors #Culture #Upheaval

  • You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.
    -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade

    #Children #Would Be #Upheaval

  • 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

    #Europe #Earthquakes #Upheaval

  • 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 #Upheaval

  • 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 #Upheaval

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

    #Feel Better #Emotional #Upheaval

  • The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.
    -- Lynn Austin

    #Land #Promise #Upheaval

  • 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 take time to fully reveal its implications.
    -- Michael R. Rose

    #Fundamentals #Upheaval #Landscape

  • Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?
    -- Mina Loy

    #Lying #Pet #Upheaval

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

    #Upheaval #Poverty #Causes

  • 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 #Upheaval

  • But before and after the Mongol upheaval, the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish centers of eastern Europe.
    -- Salo Wittmayer Baron

    #Europe #Land #Upheaval

  • You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.
    -- Wilhelm Reich

    #Mean #Thinking #Upheaval

  • We've got a lot of violence in the world right now, a lot of upheaval in America with this election coming up, and a lot of unrest will come up from that.
    -- Christine McCormick Day

    #America #Upheaval #World

  • The energy is changing here dramatically. That's part of the upheaval of the drama. The dimensional shifts are accelerating. The magnetic energy at the core of the Earth has transformed to take in the new settings of our awakening selves.
    -- Christine McCormick Day

    #Drama #Self #Upheaval

  • What we don't need today is more turmoil, more upheaval and more economic chaos.
    -- Kezia Dugdale

    #Needs #Upheaval #Today

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

    #People #Wish #Upheaval

  • 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 #Upheaval

  • The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.
    -- Jac Holzman

    #Doors #Culture #Upheaval